My wife, Monika, and I decided after I got out of work on Sunday we’d take a drive along the coast of New Hampshire. We had a Nor’easter the week before so we decided to try and head up route 1A to check out the damage. We first stopped off at our usual campground at Salisbury State Beach Park in Salisbury, MA.

We were quite surprised because we saw a bunch of campers there. It really was a very nice weekend here, temps were in the 70′s to low 80′s.

We left there and noticed the clouds were rolling in and the temperature had dropped about 10 degrees as we headed north on 1A towards Hampton.

We were pondering what to have for dinner when we drove by our new favorite take out seafood place. I made a quick U turn. Ceal’s Clam Stand was built in 1948 and it’s a family owned restaurant that serves the best seafood chowder we have ever had. You can literally stick your spoon in the cup and it will stand up straight. Large chunks of clams, scallops and lobster meat make up a great portion of this delicious chowder.

My favorite is clam chowder but once you taste this it will make you change too Ceals seafood chowder. Well, wouldn’t you know it was about 4:30 when we arrived and they said, because they are only open on the weekends, they had sold out. We were bummed and opted for the Scallop Plate. Delicious as usual.

After we ate we headed to Hampton beach where we encountered the usual traffic jams of people heading home.

We then followed 1A north up into Rye and we could see some of the aftermath of last weeks storm. We approached North Hampton and I could see the waves crashing over the seawall so we decided to pull over and take a peek. Belows video is a little of what we saw. It was also very chilly as the wind was making it BBBRRR

North Beach at Hampton, NH on VimeoWe left and then headed up to Rye Beach and saw a pair of beautiful Swans that were swimming around across the street from the ocean.

Swans at Rye Beach New Hampshire on VimeoAs we headed back home we noticed the temps were back on the rise. Ten degrees difference from home to the beach. I am sure we will take a trip out there next week.