Open Land Trust opposes development of Bay Point

 “The greatest threats to Beaufort County’s beaches come from the challenges inherent in building permanent structures in a shifting natural environment. Concern about sea level rise only compounds this issue. In a natural barrier island environment, beach erosion would simply cause waves to break higher up shore. Over time, sand would be carried behind the dune system and the beach would “retreat” inland. Man-made structures interrupt this natural process, create concerns about property loss and may actually accelerate erosion.”

– Beaufort County Comprehensive Plan, Natural Resources Element, Beaches and Dunes, Threats, updated 2017

Vince and I are slowly attempting to resurrect our social life. We're easing back into small gatherings, mostly casual dinners with one or two close friends. As much as we (actually, mostly me) long to have a party with a house full of people, we're both come to appreciate the intimacy of sharing a delicious meal with good conversation and laughter that can only be achieved in a small group setting.

So how’re you doing with the pandemic these days now that our state is mostly open and “the numbers” are still rising… even here in our beloved Beaufort? Naively, many of us keep hoping that because we want this strange time to return to some semblance of normal after sheltering in place and please let us get back to life as we knew it “before,” it will magically happen. But it seems that instead, new uncertainties keep arising. 

So me ‘n’ Sybil is down visitin’ from Muncie, and the cabin-like place we're stayin' in is on a pretty large lot near the marsh, you see, where on one side the egrets stick up their necks every now and then to look around, and on t'other side sits a bigger house, also rented, presently to two or three couples, not sure which, but two of ‘em likes to stick up their necks more than every now and then, not to look around, mostly, but to talk, to the point that me ‘n’ Sybil have to leave the cabin like stealth commandos just to get out to the street so as to take a walk...