In todays paper...

Wasque opens, closes, disappears

Dave Belcher, Chappy beach superintendent for The Trustees of Reservations, called last week and said the off road vehicle track to Wasque was open. About 30 minutes later he called and said it was closed because a pair of plovers appeared to be making a nest.

On Tuesday Dave said there was no road left to close. The weekend northeaster chewed away the beach and took out the whole road.

“The storm took out the whole road,” said Dave. “There's nothing left right up to the bank. That ends that until something comes back.”

Dave said the shortest way to get to the rip is to walk from the fishermen's parking lot. The storm also removed a good portion of East Beach, according to Dave.

How did the plovers make out? :devil:

The Wasque I remember most fondly hasn't been there for about 10 years anyway :sick:

I remember when you had to move your truck 200 yards at the change of the tide, when Leyland's house was way east of the point. Last time I was there, the rip set up a quarter mile on the other side of Leyland's. First time I fished the "new" rip was at night. No one told me about the line of rocks in the water there. I remember wondering what the hell my jig was hanging up on :huh:

Mr, Sandman,
1st off how are ya?..Hope all is well. Is the whole beach from Dykes bridge on up to Wasque closed?? Or washed away?? Plovers are bad enough..But thw weather seems worse...That beach was always pretty wide.. :crying:

What happened in the last week? I heard the beach had replenished itself so that you could drive from East Beach. And this came from one of the Trustees.

I can remember walking out there asa kid before my parents got a 4x4 (they weren't called SUVs back then). The walk took for ever, and in August the sand was so hot. Now the walk fromt he fisherman's parking lot is a couple minutes tops. I can remember being fifteen and counting more than 100 trucks out there at the point.

I was down there day before yesterday after the storm. I parked in the lot and walked to the rip. Fished for a while and was surprised to see so many guys there at dusk this time of year. The fact you can't go anyplace else has fisherman piled up in a coupld places on wasque.

It didn't look that bad but it looks different from last year (and a lot different then 10 years ago.) The rip seems to have move a little further to the south. There is still beach but this storm was hard and hit the beach directly with heavy winds/surf for 3 days. We had gusts over 50 and it was howling. I lost 3 more trees in my yard.
I havn't driven the beach yet from the dyke bridge entrance but maybe next week I will head down there. Generally in the summer more sand is deposited and in the winter more sand is removed. It is always shifting out there. If you ever flew between MV and ACK you can see what looks like shifting shoals everyplace, they never seem to stay the same. Actual small sand islands appear and disappear out there.

I bet the weather wiped that plover out. They build their nest in a indentation in the sand (like a tire rut) and since the road was wiped out I would assume the crabs enjoyed a plover egg.

Was there any mention of the beach from wasque to the jetties being closed, It is usually closed for tern nesting this time of year. I also hope the beach near Cape Pogue light is still driveable, god knows thats getting smaller.

Its sad to see the beach get smaller every year. Last year I talked to Paul Schultz and he said the house up on the hill needs to be moved and the guy who owned it offered it to Paul, but how do you get a house off chappy?