| The Chet Halleck Report:
The incoming tide on Saturday afternoon brought clean knee to waist tubettes.
We had a late start out of DC and by the time we rolled into Lewes/Rehoboth,
we headed directly to EofM to pick up my 3' paipo. The guys were pulling
on full rubber and grabbing the longboards. They closed the shop for an
hour and we watched them pick off small, clean barrels at Russ's home break.
There is a distressing lack
of sand on the beaches. Most jetties appear as islands during high tide.
Walk down the NJ path at high tide and step off into water. The fence
on the east side of the parking lot is poised to tumble - to the right,
a large section of fence has collapsed to the beach. At low tide, south
of the jetty, cedar stumps speckle what's left of the beach. North
of the jetty the surf zone looks stump free, most likely the result of
erosion to large sections of the dunes. Gordon's Pond has lost 50' to 80'
of beach. South of GP, Bulldozers have been enlisted to build up the front
dunes for the McMansions. I spent a few hours
watching the jetty breaks,
trying to get a feel for the bottom topography. From the north side
of the park, south to Dewey, away from the jetties there are a handful
of "new" sandbars that produced speedy little waves.
It's all about the ocean,
and waves. |