Ocean City, Maryland, Early Spring, The Pier
Ocean City, MD is town on the sand barrier island known as an oceanside playground for visitors of all ages. Summer is the busy season but personal commitments brought me here during the spring. One of my earliest memories of Ocean City is the pier. However, when I was a child (oh so many years ago), the pier was not as long — because the beach was not so wide. Later, they built jetties to capture sand which resulted in a wider beach — wide enough to lay down asphalt for a huge parking lot. Parking has long been at a premium on this sand bar of an island and that certainly helped. Of course, the increase in population came faster than parking expansion so it is still a problem. Sorry, back to the pier, after the beach grew, the pier had to be lengthened just so the far end would stretch out over the ocean.
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Location: Ocean City, MD, USA
Photo credit: © B. David Cathell / Alamy / Afripics
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