The Atlantic shoreline in Delaware and one pretty fantastic sunset.

We spent a week at Delaware's Bethany Beach and it was great as always. The surf was rough most days, but the last night we were there it got pretty calm. That's Doug walking pensively along the shore.

I was brave and swam most days. It didn't used to take bravery but it takes strength to go out (and get back in) these days. Delaware does "beach replenishment" quite often. Sand is dredged up from offshore and deposited on the beaches to keep them built up enough for human use. It seems like such a losing (and expensive) battle but I'd be a complete hypocrite to complain about it since we visit this beach every year. One opinion holds that all that digging and dumping has changed the character of the shoreline. Years ago, before dredging, the shoreline tapered out more into the ocean. There were breakers far out, and you could walk quite a way out before the water got deep. You know, a natural mid-Atlantic coastline. Now, you can only walk out several yards before there's a sudden drop off and you can't touch the ocean floor. That change in the slope also makes the waves big (I think).