Blowing Sand On The Beach/ Virginia Beach Project/ Fix Beach Erosion
, originally uploaded by Davidlind.
Here is what they do at Virginia Beach to combat beach erosion. They suck the sand out of Rudee’s Inlet with a long straw and deposit it on the beach. There it slowly migrates along the beach and (probably) back into Rudee’s Inlet.
“Hi kids. I’m home.”
“Where did you go Dad? You have been gone ten years!”
Oh Sorry. Just listening in on the sands of time having a little conversation. But it seems to work well. I wouldn’t want to be sunbathing near the end of the tube when it starts doing its job. But otherwise we seem to have a nice beach and (hopefully) the next time a really big storm hits the beach will keep the tall buildings from falling over.
Your blogging buddy prays that this will be the case actually.
He’s smiling now. But he won’t be if the beach blower doesn’t perform as expected in the next thirty years.
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Here’s a photo of the other half of the sand management project. If you were having a problem with something stuck in your straw you might want one of these.
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That first shot is really nice David…
Glad you’re having fun…
Hahaha. Yeh. We are having fun.
This kind of reminds me of the isalnds they built in the ocean shaped like different coumtries and sold to private buyers for millions each.
Todd
That is really a good idea to prevent erosion on beaches as I’m sure that is a big problem with all the foot traffic popular beaches get. I do wonder if things get stuck that in that giant straw often though.