Salvo dune field

winter

                                                       late summer and fall

I recall reading a post from a woman who spent a week in salvo for her vacation to the Outer Banks.  Usually when you read such postings you read positive comments of a wonderful experience but this one was different, this poster complained.  The very things she complained about are the fragile, delicate, intricateness that keep Salvo’s beaches wide and more importantly the dune field between the beach and the houses large and intact.  Thanks to the Wimble Shoals off the coast of Salvo is keeping her beaches unlike other areas of the Outer Banks that are losing their beaches at an alarming rate.                                                        spring                   

Her complains ranged from her Oceanfront house was not on (in the ocean), having to “walk” to the beach across this area that I call the dune field, then having to climb up and down a high dune to get to the beach, then having to walk across a wide beach to get to the ocean.  WOW, this is a blessing to have actually and not have your beach house teetering on the edge of the ocean!

                                                               
 
I  love the dune field almost as much as the beach.  The field changes with the time of day,  the seasons; the vast variety of plants and animals is incredible. Each plant has a purpose, an important goal, and that is to hold this barrier island together and feed the creatures that live on it.   If she just would have taken the time to enjoy what was there and why it was there, maybe she would not have minded the walk down the path through the dune field to the ocean.  But then again not everyone sees the world as I do.

                                                                           fall

Isn't it just so beautiful!