Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Good and Bad
Last week one day while pushing Sadie down the beach in her stroller, I met a little old lady and her itty bitty chihuahua, Honey. Let me just admit that Honey is a miracle of chihuahua perfection...she does tricks!!! My favorite is where Honey stands on her fragile back legs and holds out a paw which she allows people to shake. Insanely cute!!!!!!

This week we have the busy beach eroders. With all the damage done by last summer's huricanes, Wild Dune Beach has diminished by about half last year's width. Signs everywhere appeal to visitors to stay off the dunes as only they can prevent the ocean from just washing over the island and erasing all the homes and landscaping. A few days ago as I served dinner, I looked out the window and there were two men grunting and straining to shove a catamaran up onto the top of the dunes directly in front of us. Completely unnecessary because a full service marina awaits visitors on the other side of the island. Those guys got their boat up onto the dune and went home to dinner. Next morning, they took their boat back down into the water leaving two huge ruts. Each day since then the ruts have grown deeper as the beach eroders work their evil magic. I took numerous digital pictures of this in progress and said that I intended to send them plus the boat's registration number to the island police. Absolutely for sure if I did this, the eroders would have to appear in court and pay a fine...which next time they are tempted to avoid paying marina fees by wrecking the dunes, would make them think a bit. Lydia begged me to let it go because she can't stand controversy. I have listened to her so far, but feel as though by my silence I am participating in something bad.....hm. Good grief, it would only cost them $15.00/night to tie up across the island, about a mile away.

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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 8:36 PM

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