IT WAS AS IF AN EARTHQUAKE HAD HAPPENED AND CHANGED A FAMILIAR LANDSCAPE AHEAD OF ME

 ANY GUESSES ON WHICH ONE IS THE FEMALE GULL

It was a drive to Goderich this morning for Pheebs and I.  Nobody at Rotary Cove's dog walking area so we hit the trail.  The path goes about a quarter mile then dead-ends in a kind of nice little cove area with trees and tall sand and clay cliffs off to the left running along the shoreline.  I've always liked this scenic little spot.  Imagine my shocked surprise as I approached the end of the trail and found all the trees and cliffs gone and the landscape ahead of me totally changed.  Had I just stepped into the Twilight Zone??  Yes, even the towering shoreline cliffs were gone and it had nothing to do with high water levels and waves.  It had everything to do with a new 'high-end' housing development atop the bluffs.  There were bulldozer tracks all across the land where the cliffs once stood.  The cliffs had been bulldozed into a long gentle slope from the clifftop to the water.  And where trees had once stood in an area at the water's edge right in front of me there was only packed down solid clay made so by more bulldozer tracks.  It was as if an earthquake had struck and shifted the whole landscape into something totally different.

 GONE ARE THE TREES THAT WERE ONCE RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME AS WELL AS THE TALL CLIFFS....NOTHING HERE LOOKS AS IT ONCE DID 

 THIS TELEPHOTO SHOT IS OF THE NARROW PIECE OF LAND TO THE EXTREME RIGHT IN THE PHOTO ABOVE....THE CLIFFS ON THE LEFT ARE ALL THAT'S LEFT OF THE CLIFFS THAT ONCE WERE 

Home again shortly after 10 I busied myself with more raking along the road in front of our place.  Hooked up the utility trailer and took a load of yard waste to the Park's landfill site.  Pheebs came along to help me unload.  While there I heard another rumor about our Park.  The latest rumor is that our Park has been sold and the deal closes Friday.  Now, an old saying is quite appropriate here....I'll believe it when I see it!!  

 WORK HAS RESUMED ON THE BOARDWALK BETWEEN ST. CHRISTOPHER'S BEACH AND ROTARY COVE ALONG GODERICH'S SHORELINE

 THE DOGGY WALKING PATH HEADING SOUTH AND ALTHOUGH THE LANDSCAPE HAD DRASTICALLY CHANGED AHEAD OF ME I HADN'T NOTICED IT YET

 AN EXAMPLE OF SHORELINE EROSION

Twenty minutes south of us down Highway 21 is the small but rapidly growing little village of Grand Bend.  It seems like our whole shoreline area here along the shores of Lake Huron from Goderich to Bayfield and Grand Bend is in some kind of large development phase.  There seems to be a lot of money pouring into this region for new higher-end housing and commercial retail, etc.  The times are a changing and if you read this Grand Bend link it will give you an idea about what's going on.  Big money, big ideas, big plans.  Grand Bend Make-Over.  Be sure to click on the video in the article. 

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Let them take your temperature on your forehead as you enter the supermarket because it erases your memory.  I went for macaroni and cheese  and came home with two cases of beer.

My mind is like my Internet Browser......its frozen up  and I have no idea where the music is coming from.

It's a five minute walk from my house to the pub 
It's a 35 minute walk from the pub to my house 
The difference is staggering.

Most people don't think I'm as old as I am
until they hear me stand up.

I swear we're fighting two pandemics. 
Coronavirus and stupidity.  Well ain't that the truth eh!!

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