Where have all the sea oats gone, long time passing?
Where have all the sea oats gone, long time ago?
Where have all the sea oats gone?
Bulldozers killed them everyone.
Oh, when will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
Where have all the seashells gone, long time passing?
Where have all the seashells gone, long time ago?
Where have all the seashells gone?
Pumped in sand covered them everyone.
Oh, when will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
Where have all the sea birds gone, long time passing?
Where have all the sea birds gone, long time ago?
Where have all the sea birds gone?
Gone for food everyone
Oh, when will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
Where have all the fishermen gone, long time passing?
Where have all the fishermen gone, long time ago?
Where have all the fishermen gone?
Gone to fish markets, everyone.
Oh, when will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
Where has nature's beaches gone, long time passing?
Where has nature's beaches gone, long time ago?
Where has nature's beaches gone?
Killed by nourishment, everywhere.
Oh, when will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
Where has all the beauty gone, long time passing?
Where has all the beauty gone, long time ago?
Killed by development, everywhere.
Oh, when we ever learn?
When we ever learn?
Where have all our visitors gone, long time passing?
Where have all our visitors gone, long time ago?
Where have all our visitors gone?
Gone with nature, everyone.
Oh, when will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
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23 comments:
The sad thing is they could have had it all sea oats, sea shell etc and still made plenty of money.
We can still have it all,sea oats sea shells,plenty of tourists that we so dearly love thanks to a nice wide attractive beach and a terminal groin in S Nags Head to help keep it that way!
Go to Virginia Beach (nourished) and see if you can find, (1) sea oats, (2) sea birds, (3) seashells, (4) surf fishermen.
Why do people drive past it to get to the Outer Banks?
Florida Sportsmen Investigate Massive Dredge and Kill Nourishment Programs
http://www.floridasportsman.com/confron/Investigations/
Is Florida's "Beach Re-nourishment" Killing the Beaches?
http://surfermag.com/features/onlineexclusives/fl_bch-erosion/
Surfers Deal a Blow to a Beach Dredging Project
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/science/earth/09surfers.html
Attention surfers: Coastal protection tends to harm the waves
http://blogs.app.com/enviroguy/tag/beach-nourishment/
The project was undeniably an environmental catastrophe, but the material poses a health threat to beach goers, and the dingy water also poses an ongoing threat to surfers and swimmers
http://www.surfline.com/surfnews/article.cfm?id=1830
You'll find plenty of sea oats,sea shells,sea birds and a wide attractive beach on the south side of the terminal groin at Oregon Inlet and good fishing too!
The south side groin is a success in my opinion,as far as stabilizing the south side is concerned,it's just too they did nothing on the north side as originally planned to slow the progression southward.As a result we're spending millions of dollars in dredging,to pump eroded sand from the northern beaches onto Pea Island,which eventually washes down to Diamond Shoals.You want our natural sand back?There it is......
How does a beach re nourishment project and a couple of jetties suddenly transform this place into Va Beach?I personally don't know anyone favoring hard stabilization along the dune line,that would be a disaster.....
You can't stop Mother Nature,but you can sure slow her down.The south side of Oregon Inlet is a perfect example.It's stabilized that shoreline for 20 years.
What should we do,nothing?
Anon,
If you want a terminal groin and sand coughed up on a beach via a dredge pipe go to New Jersey they have it a plenty. Also be prepared to pay for the privilege each time you go.
Anon exactly,
Doing nothing but moving Highway 12 as far west as possible even God forbid, a parallel bridge in Pamlico Sound would be the best and in the long run cheapest alternative.
I'm not sure anyone knows the exact consequences of the rock groin in Oregon Inlet on North HI is but it appears it has starved sand from Pea Island.
From my perspective trying to stabilize Oregon inlet in one geographic spot is folly. It was a one solution when insight to barrier island dynamics was not understood but to continue this policy is imprudent.
Ray please make the links posted here clickable-- some of them are cut off and we need all the info. Thanks.
It is real funny regarding all of the surf related postings talking about how beach nourishment is killing the waves. Recently, hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of sand has been placed on teh beach at S-Turns. When I paddled out there the past couple of recent swells S-Turns was S-Turns. If "surfers" are complaining about beach nourishment, why are they not complaining about the nourishment at the mecca for east coast surfing?
If I have links posted that are not clickable, please excuse my mess. Could someone point them out to me and I will do my best to correct them. As usual, thanks for stopping by...
It's nothing but fear mongering,just like Al Gore and his global warming hoax that's been exposed.If people can scare you,they can control you.Environmentalists aren't the solution,they are the problem.These left wingers won't be happy until they destroy our freedom and pursuit of happiness.How miserable they must be!
We need to put back what nature has taken from us.The majority of Dare County residents will benefit from a wide attractive beach.
The sand at S turns has not been there long enough, still being placed, to create new or affect old bars yet. This is how they are planning to fix the parking problem there...take the break.
Perhaps to justify the parking lot they are 'blessing' us with behind the water dept. Other towns and even their dogs get parks, we get a parking lot.
s- turns, they are different projects, one builds a dune to protect the road but no sand gets into the surf.
in NH they will pump sand from offshore and build a ledge of sand out 60 feet into where the waves are breaking.
Plus the S turns sand piling is a joke, everyone should know all that sand is false hope. All that money and time will be gone in 2 tide changes when the conditions get right and they will get right sooner than any of us hope.
"Fear-mongering" is exactly what is happening. Frankly, I'm becoming very angry yet also desensitized to it.
We have been bombarded with it for several years now--town-wide, state-wide and nation-wide.
It needs to STOP.
Let's regain control of our rational thought! Stop letting engineers who stand to gain huge contracts scare the pants off us.
The last quote about the sand from the dune not getting into the surf at S-Turns, evidently you do not get to S-Turns that often. They are pushing sand on the beach. It is not limited to the dunes. They place tens of thousands of yards on the beach and a single storm takes it. The state officials then come down there to check on the job and are dismayed when told by the contractor how much sand they dumped on the beach, and then they ask where it went. It is going out to sea. It is my belief from experience that the waves will always be there regardless of how much sand is pumped on the beach.
it's depressing to see this NEW outer banks with all the bickering and conflict and traffic and trash and people and to many structures!!! man i miss the 80's, this place is forever changed and will never be what it was, to all the money grubbing developers i hope your money makes you comfortable where ever you are cause everyone i know is broke and can barely pay rent on the inflated and crashed housing disaster, money sucks, yuppie's suck and now the OBX sucks
Right on brother add to that list Tea baggers and the conservative right they are probably the yuppies and developers anyway.
Nice poem, Ray. Your a poet and we didn't know it.
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