By Georgia Osten
Normally, a subject I won’t talk about, much less take part in. I love our little piece of paradise and I never take it for granted. Believe me, I cherish the quiet Sunday evenings. It’s been a habit of ours, even before we lived here permanently, to long for Sunday evenings. We would sit on our deck and watch the traffic dwindle. We would pack up first thing Monday mornings to head on back to the city to our jobs and look forward to Friday when we could head back down to our paradise.
Anyway, this Spring Break has proven to be quite different. Although, we only ventured down to the beach in the early mornings with our dog, avoiding the afternoons due to the beach traffic, we didn’t get that awful foreboding feeling that something could go wrong. The crowds were full of families and several groups of young people, but they all waved and smiled as we would pass. It seems there was a new-found meaning of respect out there.
The respect and the lack of trash! Do you suppose Keep Bolivar Beautiful has finally made an impact? We took a drive this afternoon when I got off work from barrel 89 to the Post Office road. Clean as a whistle!
There are some holidays I will leave home for, but this year, this Spring Break, was not one of them. I am so pleased with the outcome. Even our neighborhood was peaceful, which says a lot for a major thoroughfare from beach to The Big Store. I only sprayed 3 cars during the 2 weeks with my water hose as they sped down my street.
On the 17th, KBB went on a Bolivar Flats clean-up, loading 98 bags of debris. More than 17 volunteers joined in. Thank you KBB!
GO’s Sand Bucket is only one beach bum’s journal of life at the beach, probably something each of you can relate to. Please feel free to email me with your thoughts, visions and/or feelings of just exactly what the beach means to you. Email: [email protected]
[3-19-2018]
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I sure do miss this place, after my friend passed away, he owned a home in Caplen (Sweet Pea) and it was sold…Not sure that is what he wanted, but sometimes GREED cause’s people to do hurtful things….