Fun At The Beach

While we were sitting at the beach having coffee in the car, a huge dump truck drove by us and then backed out onto the beach at the end of the parking lot, and dumped a load of sand.  Hmmmmm...  It drove away, and the second it was gone another arrived!  Same thing happened when it left.  I couldn't imagine the idea of a huge line of trucks arriving from somewhere with so much sand.  And then Kathy noticed a truck at the other end of the parking lot backing up.  It turns out that there were only two trucks getting sand maybe 500 feet away, at the other end of the beach!

So we drove down to the far end of the beach and saw this bulldozer pushing sand from the beach into this huge pile, which the front end loader was scooping up.  The Loader would back up, turn left and drive over to a truck out of sight to the left.  It was able to fill each truck with about three scoops of its bucket.  It was astounding to watch this ballet, and to see how quickly huge amounts of sand were moved to the north end of the beach.  Obviously the sand on the beach at the north end is slowly moved south by the currents, perhaps just during the winter, and that's why it needs to be replaced.  A fun day at the beach, watching other people work!

So this is cool!  After I posted the blog with the first two photographs I decided to check Google Earth and see what the beach looks like and why they might be moving the sand from south to north.  Wow!  Look how thin the beach is on the upper part of the photo and how much sand there is on the south end!  Question answered.  Thank you Google Maps!