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It’s a tough life being a seawall. Think about it. You just kinda sit there, day after day, year after year, taking your hits. The sand blasts you and the sea sprays over you and the wind chips away at your clean good looks. You try to be always strong and reliable, as a seawall should, but what happens? Birds use you for target practice, that’s what. People lounge on you and picnic on you and do who knows what when it’s dark out. But do they ever appreciate you, really? Do they ever stop to think where they’d be without your rock-solid support for their backsides? No, they don’t.
So it’s only appropriate that Fort Lauderdale’s long, lovely “wave wall,” as it’s called, is getting a much-needed makeover. I was just at the ocean an hour ago, walking along A1A and watching the progress of this big project. They’ve managed to keep the inconvenience to a minimum by working in small sections. The wavy white wall, with its very cool nighttime colored lighting, is in various stages of getting pressure cleaned and patched and painted in a nice new white. It looks to me like this job should be finished relatively soon, along with the huge construction at Las Olas and A1A, where the city is building an impressive entrance to the beach. For the most part, life goes on normally along the oceanfront, despite the work. And when it’s all done –hey, it should look very, very nice.
Personally, I think the seawall deserves this bit of pampering. After sitting myself down on the unusually windy beachfront today, I got a taste of stationary life by the Atlantic. It made me think. Sure, it’s great if you’re a tourist sunning yourself. Not so great if you’re a thick lump of concrete planted permanently in the sand. Just try it yourself some day when the breeze is really blowing and you’ll see what I mean. I was getting sprayed with seawater and blasted by the occasional sand particles. And yes, the wind was chipping away at my clean good looks. I developed a real sympathy for that seawall today. We bonded. I’m glad to see that someone is finally paying attention to its needs. After all, even a sturdy, rugged sea wall needs a little TLC sometimes.
So it’s only appropriate that Fort Lauderdale’s long, lovely “wave wall,” as it’s called, is getting a much-needed makeover. I was just at the ocean an hour ago, walking along A1A and watching the progress of this big project. They’ve managed to keep the inconvenience to a minimum by working in small sections. The wavy white wall, with its very cool nighttime colored lighting, is in various stages of getting pressure cleaned and patched and painted in a nice new white. It looks to me like this job should be finished relatively soon, along with the huge construction at Las Olas and A1A, where the city is building an impressive entrance to the beach. For the most part, life goes on normally along the oceanfront, despite the work. And when it’s all done –hey, it should look very, very nice.
Personally, I think the seawall deserves this bit of pampering. After sitting myself down on the unusually windy beachfront today, I got a taste of stationary life by the Atlantic. It made me think. Sure, it’s great if you’re a tourist sunning yourself. Not so great if you’re a thick lump of concrete planted permanently in the sand. Just try it yourself some day when the breeze is really blowing and you’ll see what I mean. I was getting sprayed with seawater and blasted by the occasional sand particles. And yes, the wind was chipping away at my clean good looks. I developed a real sympathy for that seawall today. We bonded. I’m glad to see that someone is finally paying attention to its needs. After all, even a sturdy, rugged sea wall needs a little TLC sometimes.
posted by LauderBLOGGER at 10:19 AM
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