STORM2K

I am currently way up in Downeast Maine and will be heading toward Boston on Saturday.
Where would be a great location in SE Maine or NE Mass. to view the big surf that Bill will kick up?

terry

terry sorry for the late reply (i just moved back up here) but for next time i would ask you 1. why not just view from arcadia national park (look at the youtube vid's from bill in schoodia point! amazing)

2. assuming you made plans to come down .........you will want to go to a place called RUGGLES....if you go to surfline.com then click on travel........you first click on N.America.....then USA....then NE.....then RI....

Ok so it's in Newport/middleton RI.....there are two ways to get there...you can use the famous cliff walk which starts by the cliffs on the (western side of "1'st "beach) it's a bit of a walk but very scenic or you can use map quest and cut the walk time by 3/4 and basically drive to Salve regina university and park off one of the side streets that parrallels the coast...from there walk 1/4mile down the cliff walk until you begin to face south......this occurs when you keep walking till the path loses elevation and you are about 10 feet above the tide line and there is a nice little railing...you will see the highest concentration of surfers and largest breaking waves.....this surf spot is famous for beinng able to "handle" the biggest S,SE swells that the atlantic ocean can throw at it while still having good "form".

also another place i like to walk to is on the eastern edge of second beach (middleton, RI) where there is a national wildlife center/trail.......walk the trail till you get toward the point.....(and basically hear the waves crashing getting loudest)....there are two small paths to get down (rocky thou) and you can get as close as you like to large breaking waves out there......just be aware that watching the surf for 5 minutes may not show you the biggest breaking swells and to leave yourself a bit more room from the crashing waves