Farked again!

Interesting how everything seems to have to have been done in costume.

Visitors to modern-day Ormond and Daytona beaches wonder how they ever held auto races on such a narrow strip of packed sand. This picture shows what Florida east coast beaches looked like at low tide up until just 20 years ago. Even at high tide there was plenty of room for motor traffic. Alas, beaches, left to nature, ebb and surge just like the tide, albeit over generations rather than hours. All of Miami-Dade beaches are artificially renourished using dredge-and-fill, but the miles of broad, hard-packed beaches of St. John's and Volusia counties are but a memory.

It seems like that's an offshore wind when it should be onshore, both from time of day (late afternoon) and from the trade winds. Not that it can't happen.

Sometimes the most interesting thing about these pictures is what is not (any longer) there, and the clues left behind, like the horse and buggy that traversed this spot earlier. It contributes to the "unstaged" appearance of most all these pics in the archive.

Thats what we call them in Missouri.

The opening line of the Rainmakers song 'Snakedance' even makes mention of it:

"I was sailing my prairie schooner one day, when I fell off the edge of the map."

Land yachts designed by Simon Stevin in the 1500s.