I came across this
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/photos-slush-waves-nantucket
photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh took these pix
“When I pulled up to the beach I could see the horizon just look strange,” he wrote, adding that the high temperature that day was a bone-chilling 19 degrees. “When I got to the top off the dunes I saw that beginning about 300 yards away from the shoreline the ocean was starting to freeze.”
Nimerfroh said he returned to the beach the next day to see if the waves had melted. Instead, the ice was creeping forward and, at the same distance where he’d seen slush waves previously, “the water had frozen solid and there were no waves at all,” he said. “I’ve been asking all the fishermen and surfers I know if they have ever seen such a thing and they have all reported that this is a first, a result of it being the coldest winter we’ve had in 81 years.”
No surfers out? Either too far from the car park or they’re a bunch of softies.
Hah! They are too-cheap to pay for the ferry out to Nantucket.
It’s an amazing place. Fourth of July weekend there’s 150,000+ people on the island, yet it has less than 5000 permanent residents. One town has over 5000 houses, yet maybe ten are lived-in year-round. All the rest are vacation homes now. The locals have been priced-out and the remoteness of the island makes it though to make a good living year-round. The high school athletic teams have to take the high-speed catamaran off the island, and in the winter they often have to fly to their meets. Instead of a school-bus, they have a twin-engine plane.