Back To The Beach

Eventually the sun came out this weekend when we were at the beach. There is no place more beautiful than the beach in the sunshine. We even saw a young girl jumping on her sliding boogie board as she pushed it across the closest shallows of the tide.


It had been about 7 months since I had been there and it felt so good to get out there walking through the dunes, breathing in that crisp sea air. But the only thing that is a constant in life is change and one of our favorite shops there, Pelican Landing, is truly going out of business. Next weekend is their last one. She's almost sold out already so she's in good shape from that perspective. But it's sad for us.


Not only that change though, there were probably 60-80 new condominiums being built right in the middle of the dunes. The community has decided to focus on increasing its tax base by increasing its residential base rather than its tourist traffic. I'm not convinced there will be 60-80 people/families interested in buying those condos but someone must be smarter than me and has some kind of reassurance I'm unaware of.

I'm wondering what other changes this increased population will cause that I haven't anticipated?

The other more sobering change was the hundreds and hundreds of trees, limbs and branches that had been blown down by the repeated colossal winds that have hit the coast this winter. I can't imagine how long it's going to take to clean it all up. There were plumes of smoke in every direction you looked where people were trying to eliminate the piles of destruction.

The one constant...