Who would imagine that every seven years the Florida Gulf Coast beaches are nourished with sand? As we approached the beach late in the afternoon on the first day of our holiday we couldn't imagine why an enormous black pipe snaked it's way along the beach as far north and south as we could see.
Tornadoes and hurricanes wreak havoc along the shores, uprooting trees and denuding the beaches of sand. So to keep the tourism business humming and the residents happy, sand is piped in from dredgers far out in the water. The operation isn't cheap. For over two weeks I photographed the workers' progress. Towards the end of our stay they were packing up. One of the workers said, "We're heading for New Jersey now. Hurricane Sandy made a mess of the coastline there. As the world turns.
Have a look at how beaches are nourished -- around the world I suppose.
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