Joe Kidston watched the sun come up over Nantasket Beach this morning.
Nantasket Beach
Joe Kidston got up an hour earlier to enjoy the sunrise at Nantasket Beach.
State Police announced today that starting tomorrow, DCR is cutting the number of state-run parking spaces at Nantasket Beach by 50%.
Neil the roving UHub photographer reports a deer emerged from the ocean at Nantasket Beach this afternoon - possibly after running into the water near the comfort station at the north end of the beach.
State Police kept a close watch - and prevented any selfie situation by keeping people away. At first, troopers were looking for somebody to come tranquilize the doe so they could bring her somewhere safer, but then: Read more.
When subzero air meets still liquid water, the result is "sea smoke," as our own Cybah shows us with this view of Boston Harbor this morning.
Eric Ballard videoed the sea smoke in action: Read more.
Neil the roving UHub photographer roved all the way down to Nantasket Beach this evening.
The Herald talks to Harvey Silverglate about the guy arrested at Nantasket Beach yesterday when he refused to come out of the surf. Well, that and after he allegedly ran across the road to try to evade state troopers.
Nantasket Beach wasn't exactly crowded around 2 p.m., but there were quite a few people there, from wetsuit-clad surfers to more casual body surfers and bathers to one guy with a metal detector. It was kind of windy, but not overwhelmingly so, and the waves for the most part were small to minuscule. Looking north toward the rest of Hull, you could see this cloud hugging the topography:
Here's something you don't see every day: A guy walking on water (OK, he was actually standing on a surfboard and was getting around by paddling):
As I was driving to the beach, it started raining a bit around 1:45 between the Fore and Back rivers. Afterwards, at a Panera in Hingham, I had just sat down when this little girl at the table next to me blurted out: "What if the hurricane started early and we were driving on the road and we DIED?!?"
![Chestnut Hill](http://www.universalhub.com/images/2008/hanna-chestnuthill2008-09-06.jpg)
It was looking pretty ominous this afternoon over Rte. 9 in Chestnut Hill. But by early evening, it was pretty calm off Hough's Neck in Quincy:
![Hough's Neck](http://www.universalhub.com/images/2008/hanna-hough2008-09-06.jpg)
As night (and a light rain) fell, there were about a dozen surfers in the water at Nantasket Beach. But the waves weren't all that big:
![Nantasket](http://www.universalhub.com/images/2008/hanna-hull2008-09-06.jpg)
![Subscribe to Nantasket Beach](https://www.universalhub.com/misc/feed.png)