I spent some time yesterday exploring our waterfront. With all of our house difficulties sweeping over us we haven't put much time into the waterfront. Two main reasons for this, first as I said is the overwhelming drive to get ourselves out of the 19th century and into the 20th century, as far as the house was concerned; and then the BIG second factor is the dollar factor. The dollar factor is a huge factor around here. Short of being JP Morgan, Bill Gates, or Donald Trump, there are not many folks that could afford to bring this place into the 21st century and the center of an upscale life. Hell, we are trying to get a mid 20th century middle class life going here, and we will consider it a coup when we get it! Anyway the waterfront is super, the work required to get as much control and enjoyment out of it as possible is SUPER. Superman could n't do this in a concise period of time,neither will we. As a result we keep on putting this off. First of all we can access the water with difficulty, but it can be done; that hinders the motivation to fix the shoreline even though it pleasures the soul. All of it pains the eye!
We have beautiful white sand, but lots of debris put along the shoreline. Concrete slabs, bricks, yard debris, fence posts, logs, trees that came down river, tree stumps...you get the idea...all placed there by dumb humans in the name of erosion control. If you ask me, much of it caused more erosion than it ever controlled. Previous owners did some strange things they considered solutions, because they were unwilling to make the investment in time or money required to do it right.
Yesterday's project was to photograph the area to give me some idea of what was here in the past, could be here again, or could be dealt with in another way. The good news is that there is lots of beautiful sand, and about a 50 foot span of private beach. This time of the year the water is very low at low tide. It is a great time of year to photograph the remains of the old bulkheading that was here at one time. From what I understand, bulkheading can no longer be built, unless there was bulkheading there before, hence my interest in collecting photographs of the area. There was bulkheading here, so there is a possibility there could be again. The debris factor is a very nasty situation. If you look at some of the photos you will see the concrete, blacktop, dead trees and other debris that are strewn along the beautiful shore. How the heck could we ever afford to deal with all of that!
We have beautiful white sand, but lots of debris put along the shoreline. Concrete slabs, bricks, yard debris, fence posts, logs, trees that came down river, tree stumps...you get the idea...all placed there by dumb humans in the name of erosion control. If you ask me, much of it caused more erosion than it ever controlled. Previous owners did some strange things they considered solutions, because they were unwilling to make the investment in time or money required to do it right.
Yesterday's project was to photograph the area to give me some idea of what was here in the past, could be here again, or could be dealt with in another way. The good news is that there is lots of beautiful sand, and about a 50 foot span of private beach. This time of the year the water is very low at low tide. It is a great time of year to photograph the remains of the old bulkheading that was here at one time. From what I understand, bulkheading can no longer be built, unless there was bulkheading there before, hence my interest in collecting photographs of the area. There was bulkheading here, so there is a possibility there could be again. The debris factor is a very nasty situation. If you look at some of the photos you will see the concrete, blacktop, dead trees and other debris that are strewn along the beautiful shore. How the heck could we ever afford to deal with all of that!
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