. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Sister Beaches Have Little in Common By Edgerton. A subtropical wind coming off the ocean grabs sand and hurls it against elaborate beach cottages and expensive cars. Fashionably dressed beachgoers search for shells among rusty pipes called into service every winter to resupply the sand-starved beach. Sunbathers recline on lounge chairs and blankets, seemingly unaware of surfers just beyond the breakers and fishermen on the pier above. A tern soars behind the island's now non-existent dune line. He fi
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Sister Beaches Have Little in Common By Edgerton. A subtropical wind coming off the ocean grabs sand and hurls it against elaborate beach cottages and expensive cars. Fashionably dressed beachgoers search for shells among rusty pipes called into service every winter to resupply the sand-starved beach. Sunbathers recline on lounge chairs and blankets, seemingly unaware of surfers just beyond the breakers and fishermen on the pier above. A tern soars behind the island's now non-existent dune line. He finds little landing space, for the last lot on Wrightsville Beach has been sold. Farther south, at Carolina Beach, a young couple —honeymooners perhaps — drift into the Seven Seas deli and grill. He orders a sub, she a hot dog. At the bar, a man in tattered clothes finishes a sandwich, gulps beer and grabs a hot dog to go. "See you tomorrow," he tells the woman behind the counter. About a hundred feet beyond the deli, a woman squints as she walks from the Carolina Beach bingo parlor into the full light of the sun. Her hair is curled and pinned tightly to her head. A cigarette dangles from her bottom lip. She checks her huge leather pocket- book and turns south down the boardwalk. At the Kure Beach fishing pier, just south of Carolina Beach, life goes on as it has for decades: folks from all over the southeast sling their lines into the swelling surf, hoping for the big one that always eludes them. When the fishing's bad, some wander off the pier and into Bud and Joe's Tavern on the north side of the parking lot, or the small restaurants on the southside. Sandwiched between the popular beach resorts, Masonboro Island stands totally undeveloped, a monument to nature, a stretch of unspoiled coastline amid overdeveloped shores. These, with the exclusive Figure Eight Island to the north and Fort Fisher to the south, are the beaches of New Hanover County. They exhibit a
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