the beach – on the road

Well, it was deep deep deep and thick and covered the roads here after Hurricane Irene. We have one very narrow section on this wee cay, and when it gets buried in sand we have two cays. Not good. Who wants to take a boat to your house that is just over – there?

The ever-resourceful people who live in the Abacos get right to work on clearing the roads, cleaning up the mess. It is just amazing to see how much sand is alongside the road and in the park, as compared with the amount of sand that is not on the beaches!

Makes you want a high=powered Shop Vac that will suck it all up and pour it back out the hose onto the beach.

I’ve always enjoyed driving past this little boat – “Sol Searcher.” It is in the water (usually) on a boat lift, and has a tiny boat next to it named “Sol.”

Well, Sol is nowhere to be seen – hope it isn’t buried in the sand. And Sol Searcher is hovering above – sand.
(Sol Searcher’s house has a deck on the back with two posts connected to the house, and two posts hanging out over a cliff to the ocean.

And the strange thing is – some people built a house on the tiniest, narrowest point of dune. Rumour is that they wanted insurance money, but wow, what a stupid thing that would be. It is insane enough to build on the ocean in a hurricane-prone area (the Bahamians here don’t tend to do that!), but on the skinny part?

This is, from left to right, ocean, tiny bit of beach, teensy dune, house, road.

Asking for trouble…

And got it!

My gratefuls – That there was so little real physical damage to homes done by Hurricane Irene. That I live on a cay where the resilient and very self-reliant people will have things back to normal in record time. That we got to enjoy some Japanese treats tonight with tea. That we have some Japanese treats to enjoy!

~ by photokunstler on 29 October 2011.