New Sea Wall

For Christmas, Ashley and I decided to treat ourselves to a new sea wall :-( It is sort of like a new roof: it's expensive, you need it, but it certainly isn't something that is fun and exciting for the family. However, we bit the bullet and had it done, and I must say we are very pleased with the results. First, here is a picture of the work in progress. Note how much higher up the new wall is compared to the current level of the sand (about 18 inches).

Here is a picture of the big backhoe with the new wall already in place. You can see the original wall in front of it.

At some point, they started bringing in truckloads of sand.

Eventually that had enough sand and levelled it off.

They also built a nice set of stairs to get down to the water.

Barkley seemed to enjoy rolling around on the new beach.

Because we put this new sea wall in, we are bound to get a huge hurricane come through here this year :-( Here's hoping for a nice tame season!