The Beach

It’s a new year and it seemed like a good day to go see how life is at Tybee’s north beach. The weather was moderate for the first day of January and winds were calm. The beach renourishment project was underway and we didn’t realize it was that close to the north beach crossover we use.

I’ll start with the foreground. If you look at the left side of the picture you can see how much recent hurricanes have eroded the beach. The dozer out at the water line is where the new beach edge will be. We were there at about the midpoint between high and low tide. In the background is the dredge that is pumping sand from the ocean floor to the beach. The project will run about 6 to 8 weeks, pump about one million cubic yards of sand to the beach and dune system at a cost of about 13 million dollars. You may wonder how disruptive this is to life in and around Tybee. Short sections of the beach are closed for the project then reopened as work is completed and the project moves down toward completion. Out on the ocean as the picture below shows, shrimping continues.

The boats always look so tiny compared to the vastness of the ocean.