State of the beach?

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State of the beach?

Postby LuckySevens » Tue Mar 15, 2022 9:15 pm

We were at Pearl RIGHT after the devastating hurricane season in 2020 (November). The beach was decimated - barely enough sand between the wall and the water for a couple beds. We were back in March and it was only marginally better. From any of you that have gotten back recently, has there been any noticeable recovery of the beach? Or is it still mostly washed out?
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Re: State of the beach?

Postby youme69 » Wed Mar 16, 2022 9:24 am

Just arrived home last night... The beach has totally changed, the beds that were up along the wall close to the pool are now down closer to the water on a flat area about 8 feet below. But they have added quite a few more beds, the last storms have really changed the place including vegetation and palm trees.
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Re: State of the beach?

Postby wwpc » Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:19 am

They took another hit in 2021, we like to lie at the beach every day so we have really noticed the impact.

Yes the beds are closer to the water, so depending on tides and seaweed you may have people walk directly in front of you. For us we don’t care we are on our naked vacation, and there was a sign you walked past so keep your eyes forward.

Also on the restaurant side it the beach so if you are looking at the ocean the right side, its a bit of a disaster to walk in the water, there is considerable amount of the wall that has now ended up in the ocean.

Also the vegetation has changed, where you once walked by and only could see the back side of the swim up bar now the pool deck is totally exposed.

It has impacted all the beaches in the area, if you walk into town the large stretch of beach is mostly hard packed now.
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Re: State of the beach?

Postby youme69 » Wed Mar 16, 2022 1:55 pm

Totally agree... it has made walking both directions so easy, flat hard pack we couldn't believe it!!
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Re: State of the beach?

Postby LuckySevens » Wed Mar 16, 2022 1:58 pm

youme69 wrote:Just arrived home last night... The beach has totally changed, the beds that were up along the wall close to the pool are now down closer to the water on a flat area about 8 feet below. But they have added quite a few more beds, the last storms have really changed the place including vegetation and palm trees.


So if I'm reading this right, the beach has grown some? Last time we saw it there was no beach to put beds 8 feet out below...
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Re: State of the beach?

Postby Qaz12129 » Thu Mar 17, 2022 9:00 am

From today. Hope this helps.
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Re: State of the beach?

Postby LuckySevens » Thu Mar 17, 2022 10:46 am

Qaz12129 wrote:From today. Hope this helps.


It does, thank you! That is a LOT better… not what it once was, but a lot better.
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Re: State of the beach?

Postby warmwaves » Fri Mar 18, 2022 5:16 pm

From today. Hope this helps.


Thanks for these !
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Re: State of the beach?

Postby Bruce&Pam » Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:21 pm

we used to love the beach beds under trees. Seems the storms took out most of the trees. The last time we were there the beds were out in the sun and we got really sunburned in the bed. things have changed.

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Re: State of the beach?

Postby LuckySevens » Fri Jan 06, 2023 3:42 pm

Gearing up for our ‘23 trips… how’s the beach faring these days?
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Re: State of the beach?

Postby Jas_n_Ash » Thu Jan 12, 2023 10:32 am

LuckySevens wrote:Gearing up for our ‘23 trips… how’s the beach faring these days?


We just got back this past Tuesday, we arrived on Friday and the beach was spotless. However, the next morning unfortunately, there was a ton of seaweed. They have people working hard to clean it up but it comes in too fast for them to keep up. Didn't keep us from having another amazing trip though.
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Re: State of the beach?

Postby wwpc » Fri Jan 13, 2023 10:51 am

LuckySevens wrote:Gearing up for our ‘23 trips… how’s the beach faring these days?


We have lots of overlapping dates!

The beach was much better over New Years than in October, we prefer a beach bed but it was not going to happen in October, well you could have been in a bed but people walking past would basically be at the foot of your bed.

I read something about it not being such a bad seaweed year and that seems to be true.
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