Speaking of Ike & Sand!
Here’s a dramatic demonstration of why we need a continuous dune line. Next time you’re at the beach pick up some sand and stare at it. Get a good close look. See the tiny white grains; they look solid enough. But make a fist, turn your hand over, and open it up a bit. That sand’ll run through your fingers slick as a whistle. We all know this, and yet we think our island starts at the waters edge. It doesn’t start at the low tide line, or the high tide line, or even at the “vegitation line” as defined by the Texas Open Beaches Act. The island starts where the plants start. That dune covered in vegitation as much of a boundry between the surf and dry land as you can get on a sandbar, which don’t forget, is where we all live. Our beaches look beautiful, but soak them down and let the swell give them a kick and they flow just like the shot I’ll be tossin’ back the next time I hear there’s a storm brewing out in the Gulf.
ps. Thanks to Jerry Wilson for taking this and several other dramatic shots posted here.