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Originally Posted by Nebe
I was told there was a time when you could drive your buggy from deephole all the way to green hill, with the only issue being Cards pond's mini breachway... hard to believe
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Yup.... I've been at GH since 1949. There was at least 150' of beach between the dunes and the high tide mark... and more dunes as well. Just as a side note, when walking from GH to Mary Carpenter's "Casino" or the grocery store to buy Pall Malls at 23 cents in the quarter machine (two pennies were wrapped inside the cellophane) there were hundreds of sand pipers (and other shore birds which shall remain nameless because they inspire too many dumb posts) scurrying out of the way and there were dozens of terns diving at us to protect their nests. So now... no beach, most of the dunes gone, rarely see sand pipers and hardly ever get dived at by a tern.
And all that on a stretch of beach where foot traffic has been limited and vehicles have been prohibited for many years.