The Beach

Some interesting changes took place at the beach between Memorial Day and and this weekend. It appears that the GLO took the hurricane damaged house, as it is gone and the tell-tale picket fence - usually indicating the dune line - has been placed back against the "second row" home. It's strange to see the empty space & will be interesting to learn if the owners lost their land or if they'll be able to rebuild.



It's an old wives tale that Mother Nature sends the seaweed to protect the coast, just before she sends the storm. If this is true, we're in for it this hurricane season!

Seaweed was thick and plentiful all along the beach. In most cases, the beaches had been "groomed" with mounds and mounds (6 - 9 feet high) of seaweed pushed back towards the dune line to trap blowing sand and replenish the natural dunes.

You'll see in this photo, as we walked west from Pirates Beach, the "a la natural" section of beach was completely covered.



Here's a lovely shot of some seaweed sporting a huge "tar ball" about as big as a plate. We didn't see any other evidence of "tanker tar".



Here's a close up ... it had a variety of shells - and sand - stuck all over it.