The world according to me....

Yesterday, I was on the beach in Emerald Isle, NC, and took this photo of the transfer pipe of the channel dredging/nourishment project (see here). I couldn't help wonder what new visitors or tourists might think of this when the first walk out on the beach and see this mysterious pipeline running off into the distance. Sure enough, a little while later a young couple asked me what the heck the pipe was for. "Renourishment," I said. "They are dredging sand from the inlet in the west and transferring it to the beach over in the east." They wondered if it cost a lot of money (yes) and also what it looked like at the end of the pipe. So, for anyone who wonders what the discharge area of a nourishment project might look like, here is a photo, also taken yesterday