Beach ReNourishment

 Hurricanes do a number on our beach.

There is lots of erosion.

Every 3-5 years the County uses a bunch

of their tourist dollars and re-nourishes the beach.

They have been working on it for a bit now

and finally made it north to OUR beach.

That's one of the ships involved.

And a fisherman.

Our beach was unusually crowded yesterday!

The side-by-side you can see in the center of the picture

was a survey crew.

One guy on the beach YELLING to another guy in a 

wet suit with a 12' pole, walking out into the surf so

they could take readings.

He got VERY DEEP.

Like over his head.

Good thing he had a big stick!

LOL.

Lots of people fishing. (or getting ready to start)

There was even a Coast Guard cutter chasing a little boat who

was heading straight for the feed line from the dredge to the beach.

The company ship was blowing his horn,

the Coast Guard was chasing.

There were even TWO Black Hawk helicopters who happened

to be in the area (but I only got one because it's really really

hard to see what you are taking a picture of when it's super

sunny and you aren't wearing glasses... lol)

Such excitement!

Kyle and I decided to leave our chairs and walk south on

the beach (we always walk north because there are WAY

less people that direction, generally...)

and check out the action.

Lots of equipment.

These two guys are pushing the dredged sand out into the surf

to widen the beach.

They just keep going!

All that water, salt and sand!

Can't be good for those machines.

The birds were obviously enthralled.

Eventually we had to walk back to our chairs and his car.

Needed to drop something off for Rod at the airport.

And I needed to get home to teach my evening Zoom.

While leaving the airport, look what dropped in!

An "Osprey"?????

Super cool plane!

Living on the Space Coast is so much fun!