https://www.bringbackourbeaches.com/updates daily 0.75 2026-04-02 https://www.bringbackourbeaches.com/updates/the-north-shores-shifting-sands monthly 0.5 2026-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/1774018926985-HDAIDJ8LJ40HGBKTAP7T/KLEIN_Hawaii_Nov2022_00663-1-780x520.jpg Updates - The North Shore’s Shifting Sands - Classic first swell of the winter on the North Shore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/1774018926994-IILIGXQAV2G6MRWL48DG/KLEIN_Hawaii_Nov2022_00600-1-780x520.jpg Updates - The North Shore’s Shifting Sands - Photos: Jeremiah Klein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/53d16974-0e0a-4690-988d-3028d1f48caf/MonsterMush_092214_070_Davey.jpg Updates - The North Shore’s Shifting Sands - Make it stand out The North Shore welcomes an early season NW swell. Photo: Sean Davey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/1774019301949-NLSHV18XQCVQ67ZGBWEQ/House-on-Beach_022822_0023.jpg Updates - The North Shore’s Shifting Sands - Makeshift seawall, Sunset Beach. Photo: Sean Davey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/1774019301849-ODV1E3DUATISBTTZW27H/SunsetBch_091118__108.jpg Updates - The North Shore’s Shifting Sands - Winter 2022. Photo: Sean Davey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/baf76565-f949-4331-ab86-bae4bc687648/shallow-reef-from-above_DJI_20250115012844_0368_D_RyanChachiCraig_250115.jpg Updates - The North Shore’s Shifting Sands - Make it stand out No sand, just reef. Photo: Ryan “Chachi” Craig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/230523c2-c15a-4f49-becc-b9b45ee891cd/Ehukai_to_Pupes_091718__049.jpg Updates - The North Shore’s Shifting Sands - Make it stand out Beach erosion between Ehukai and Pupukea, September, 2018. Photo: Sean Davey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/72111aa0-a70b-4bdd-9c16-b357e1d067b4/sandbar-aerials-from-above_DJI_20250115012113_0316_D_RyanChachiCraig_250115.jpg Updates - The North Shore’s Shifting Sands - Make it stand out Eukhai sandbar from above. Photo: Ryan “Chachi” Craig https://www.bringbackourbeaches.com/updates/waimea-bay-how-surfings-most-famous-big-wave-was-made monthly 0.5 2026-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/59c628d7-0cd5-4dd7-80c6-8bd946c7ec5e/WaimeaBayScenic_DSCF2174KEOKI2.jpg Updates - Waimea Bay: How Surfing's Most Famous Big Wave was Made - Make it stand out It's all about the sand. Photo: Keoki https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/72c12d9a-12fd-49c2-b094-9b07f586963d/CM-scaled+%281%29.jpg Updates - Waimea Bay: How Surfing's Most Famous Big Wave was Made - Make it stand out Oahu’s South Shore: the birthplace of surfing and home to much imported sand. Photo: Jeremiah Klein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/7d64a716-de0c-4b01-aaf0-0b4418fcdf22/default.jpg Updates - Waimea Bay: How Surfing's Most Famous Big Wave was Made - Make it stand out Waimea Bay circa 1930s. Photo: UH Manoa Hamilton Library Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/0c1e27e9-35b7-4089-a784-e1f86fc6d3bb/KLEIN_Waimea_Beach_Sand_Jan2025_01281.jpeg Updates - Waimea Bay: How Surfing's Most Famous Big Wave was Made - Make it stand out Waimea Bay, 2025. Photo: Jeremiah Klein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/bb06546a-0ce5-4f10-82a6-9650f90b6f4a/Eddie_012223_900-scaled.jpg Updates - Waimea Bay: How Surfing's Most Famous Big Wave was Made - Make it stand out 2023 Eddie. Photo: Sean Davey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/8099e242-d813-4046-83ae-59e60c3e1b45/HAWAII-STATE-ARCHIVES_Waimea-1200x952.jpg Updates - Waimea Bay: How Surfing's Most Famous Big Wave was Made - Make it stand out Early 1900s. Note the jump rock surrounded by sand. Photo: Hawaii State Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/abb3c555-903f-4c0d-976e-bc0ff3a9ab50/waimea3-1200x765.jpg Updates - Waimea Bay: How Surfing's Most Famous Big Wave was Made - Make it stand out Waimea from above, circa 2024. Note the jump rock surrounded by water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/c65017e0-230e-43cb-9d4c-42a286dd0157/Waimea_011223_102_DAVEY.webp Updates - Waimea Bay: How Surfing's Most Famous Big Wave was Made - Make it stand out Sunrise at the Eddie. Photo: Davey https://www.bringbackourbeaches.com/updates/sand-overload-in-puerto-escondido monthly 0.5 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/1f461e94-8529-474e-afcf-63f25ffb365a/Closeout-4586-Edwin-1560x971+narrow.jpg Updates - Sand Overload In Puerto Escondido - Make it stand out A modern problem for Puerto: more closeouts. Photo: Edwin Morales https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/96c21e4a-77fe-4c47-92e4-4394c3fd7fda/Tim-Bernardy2-scaled.jpeg Updates - Sand Overload In Puerto Escondido - Make it stand out Puerto Escondido earned its “Mexican Pipeline” moniker in the 1970s, when draft-dodging tube hunters lingered long enough to recognize Playa Zicatela’s full potential. Once word spread, Newport Beach standouts Billy Pells and Paul Heussenstamm confirmed the rumors of empty perfection. Photo: Tim Bernardy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/f9d556f6-ecb3-4f81-97bd-37f07a0fd563/Duna-2007-scaled.jpg Updates - Sand Overload In Puerto Escondido - Make it stand out Under healthy, pre-jetty conditions, Playa Zicatela’s shoreline displayed larger and more frequent crescent-shaped embayments. These dynamic “bites” in the beach help generate rip currents and sculpt the shifting sandbars that give the wave its distinctive shape. Photo: Edwin Morales https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/3913beff-f5f7-48cd-a322-ce2cc339975a/What%E2%80%99s+Happening+at+Puerto+Escondido+%281%29.jpg Updates - Sand Overload In Puerto Escondido The root cause of the Puerto Problem is a small jetty that was built two decades ago to enhance the natural harbor at Bahia Principal. Back in 1998, when local fishermen sought to install the jetty, there was little to no public resistance because Puerto’s fishing economy predated its status as a world class surfing destination, and the risks to the sand balance issue were largely unknown. “During the first few years after the jetty went in, things seemed okay,” recalls Edwin Morales, a prominent local surfer and photographer who was also raised in the region. “We noticed the beach inside the harbor at Principal got a little wider, but that didn’t really bother anyone. It took about five years for us to notice that Zicatela was getting wider too, and about ten years before we realized it was really starting to negatively impact the wave.” Because Puerto sits inside an incredibly active littoral cell fed by two nearby rivers, the Rio Colotepec to the south and the Rio Verde to the north, the jetty became a perfect sediment trap. Each season, sand poured up the beach with long period southerly energy. Instead of continuing its natural journey across the sand profile and toward the canyon’s mouth, it began stacking up against the jetty like grains piling against a dam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/237d6c5c-6c8d-4fda-b1ce-655dbd95c8ee/edwin-sand-new-scaled+%281%29.jpg Updates - Sand Overload In Puerto Escondido - Make it stand out While many surf breaks today struggle with a shortage of sand caused by human intervention, Puerto Escondido faces the opposite problem. Here, human actions have trapped and overloaded the system with sand. The beach has nearly doubled in width over twenty years, diminishing the formation of embayments and sandbars. Photo: Edwin Morales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/073a2615-9468-4a58-b91c-0762d7ad8a1b/edwin-perfect-scaled.jpeg Updates - Sand Overload In Puerto Escondido - Make it stand out Puerto isn’t lacking surf—there are still plenty of barrels. But the magic windows are fewer and more fragile due to the impacts of excess sand, including longer-lasting rips tearing through the lineup, larger and more persistent backwash, and waves breaking much closer to shore. Photo: Edwin Morales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/15fb23cd-fd5a-4b02-893a-700be1e53678/crowd-1200x800.jpg Updates - Sand Overload In Puerto Escondido - Make it stand out In November, the entire community rallied on a volunteer basis to confront the issue. They are now working together on a long-term solution that will restore the beach to health. In 2026, this same coalition of local stakeholders aims to designate Puerto Escondido as an official World Surfing Reserve. Photo: Edwin Morales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/49af61c3-b211-4360-80f6-bee7cb3ec0e0/stw-1200x651.jpg Updates - Sand Overload In Puerto Escondido - Make it stand out Finishing touches on jetty being torn down. 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Photo: Dugan/ESM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/4caeaaaf-88ed-460c-b539-e04ce09eb15e/f151028o.jpg Updates - The Rise and Fall of First Peak, Sebastian Inlet “I was invited to look at the Army Corps of Engineer’s approach and blueprints,” recalls Matt Kechele. “The guy doing the feasibility study reassured us that no work on the footprint of the rocks at the tip of the jetty would take place, so it should not affect First Peak. But they dropped some big rocks to absorb wave energy at the tip. They pretty much bamboozled us.” Those rocks created a damaging sand shoal that altered how waves hit the pier. But the real blow came from the redesign. The new pier was built on top of the old one, with pilings placed outside the originals. Those pilings acted like a filter, weakening the wave energy that once rebounded off the jetty wall. Incoming waves lost force on the way in, and the reflected surge was diminished on the way out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/02302b28-96c7-422d-9a07-861cee7b874a/333040085_928221481514102_7164982137403666104_n.jpg Updates - The Rise and Fall of First Peak, Sebastian Inlet - Make it stand out Sebastian Inlet aerial view. https://www.bringbackourbeaches.com/updates/from-sand-crisis-to-superbank-the-gold-coasts-masterclass-in-coastal-management monthly 0.5 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/b18a3463-7236-43a2-abc5-ce1e94e4e2ac/69_klein_snapper_australia2015_03489.jpg Updates - The Gold Coast: From Sand Crisis to Superbank - Make it stand out Photo: Jeremiah Klein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/a7255eb3-61f0-407f-bc76-f735cbc0c32e/DJI_0579.jpeg Updates - The Gold Coast: From Sand Crisis to Superbank - Make it stand out Photo: Andrew Sheild https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/48e187d8-7dd3-4602-86c4-cdb88f60068d/SnapperSand1-1.jpg Updates - The Gold Coast: From Sand Crisis to Superbank - Make it stand out Gold Coast sand strategy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/1758051998732-5Y5S69G4SB2I3PZVOC2A/SurfersParadiseSandReplenishmentDJI_0449-copy-scaled.jpg Updates - The Gold Coast: From Sand Crisis to Superbank https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/1758051999075-3EKI6T6XNSD2C6ISF79G/B90J4326-copy.jpeg Updates - The Gold Coast: From Sand Crisis to Superbank https://www.bringbackourbeaches.com/updates/beach-sand-the-most-vital-rare-earth-mineral monthly 0.5 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/13040a27-59db-4507-8825-fd4b33a8c340/KLEIN_Barra_De_La_Cruz_Mexico_2025_4672.jpg Updates - Beach Sand: The Most Vital Rare Earth Mineral - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/ac574e7b-8e49-4772-b809-a95caf594699/NJ-Mike-Nelson-New-Jersey-storm-2-_91-1.webp Updates - Beach Sand: The Most Vital Rare Earth Mineral - Make it stand out New Jersey’s coastline is littered with jetties. (And occasionally gems.) Photo: Mike Nelson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/3bba3504-c8b8-4bec-981d-2d52dee45998/Hawaii_Waikiki-Beach_1954_Royal-Hawaian-and-Moana-Hotel-scaled.jpg Updates - Beach Sand: The Most Vital Rare Earth Mineral - Make it stand out Waikiki, circa 1954, with sand from Manhattan Beach. Photo: Dick Metz/SHACC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/7376a2e0-423f-4089-a38f-84f36dec5b5f/klein_puerto_escondito_mexico2018_00082.jpg Updates - Beach Sand: The Most Vital Rare Earth Mineral - Make it stand out Puerto Escondido, Mexico loves sand. Photo: Jeremiah Klein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/0137f415-041b-40fa-990c-830ce0875202/JvLWRI.jpg Updates - Beach Sand: The Most Vital Rare Earth Mineral - Make it stand out Sand Motor Project, Netherlands. Note both the width of the beach and the folks enjoying the sand. https://www.bringbackourbeaches.com/updates/surfing-our-engineered-coasts-1 monthly 0.5 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/30f91376-62a9-4ccf-9a04-b6750fe3754a/klein_newport2014_3723.jpg Updates - Surfing Our Engineered Coasts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/fa66af44-378e-4f4b-ae61-2d72fcaa54ce/klein_2019_san_clemente_trestles_10623.jpeg Updates - Surfing Our Engineered Coasts Trestles is sacred ground in California surf lore — raw coastline, pristine watershed, iconic waves. But the surf here was altered more than 135 years ago. Not by surfers. By railroad engineers. In the 1880s, as the Surf Line railway pushed north from San Diego, a powerful winter storm had shifted river mouths north along their floodplains. The engineers—eager to lay track—froze those rivers in place exactly where they found them. When they reached San Mateo Creek, they pinned the river mouth where it still sits today: Uppers. The southern end of the floodplain—where Lowers now sits—was effectively cut off. From then on, every major sediment loads went to Uppers. Lowers has been living off hand-me-downs ever since. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/4e3dcf6f-6aee-48b3-a8f4-5c8117910654/04klein_france2015_22407.jpg Updates - Surfing Our Engineered Coasts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/9952e467-a7d5-4845-a529-f94ea43222d7/Hossegor1-1200x741.png Updates - Surfing Our Engineered Coasts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/68e6a85f-4186-4c97-beaf-09773e014979/Mundaka-1200x710.png Updates - Surfing Our Engineered Coasts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/bf75269a-88b6-48d5-967d-c0bd16ab79b6/manasquan.jpg Updates - Surfing Our Engineered Coasts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/d9585a2e-3fd5-4aa4-a053-a8a6b547c484/NorthNewJersey-1200x630.png Updates - Surfing Our Engineered Coasts Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, breaks like Manasquan Inlet in New Jersey owe their very existence to human engineering. From Sandy Hook to Cape May, there are 11 coastal inlets. A hundred years ago all of these inlets were highly dynamic, and would shift regularly with the weather, distributing sand along various parts of Jersey’s shore and barrier islands. But over the past century six have been locked permanently in place, and hardened with jetties on both sides to make for safer passage. While these moves bolstered recreation and commerce in the area, these structures disrupted the natural sand transport. This led to faster erosion, which led to the installation of more jetties, which cut off even more sand transport. To remedy this issue, New Jersey was one of the first states to acknowledge what others are just now waking up to: if man disrupts a natural system, then man needs to own the role of keeping things in balance with his own efforts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/82395811-048b-44a2-ae38-be2c07661f20/CM-scaled.jpg Updates - Surfing Our Engineered Coasts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/d65f774a-8bf5-4578-8f1d-df242a45e1f6/NEWPORT-1200x634.jpg Updates - Surfing Our Engineered Coasts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/d28ddacf-47cb-47ff-9ef1-06891d4acdd8/KLEIN_Orange-County_May2023_07642_sage_burke.webp Updates - Surfing Our Engineered Coasts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.bringbackourbeaches.com/updates/surfing-our-engineered-coasts monthly 0.5 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/8066fce2-2265-4355-9742-1fe91eb468a2/02-Klein.JPG Updates - Anatomy of a SoCal Sand Crisis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/688e93d8-606c-4cd4-8d32-6afb6cd751d7/CDMCirca1925-scaled.jpg Updates - Anatomy of a SoCal Sand Crisis Back when the Santa Ana River flowed directly into Newport Harbor’s back bay, the sand flow created a legendary sandbank at the harbor entrance. The harbor jetties were extended in the late 20s, and the wave was extinct by the mid 30s. Photo: OC Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/6232eb87-32b8-4546-8163-097fc05d764a/KLEIN_Cottons-Doheny_Bay_May2024-0422-Enhanced-NRup-standard-7200h.jpg Updates - Anatomy of a SoCal Sand Crisis - San Clemente Pier sits smack in the middle of the San Juan Bight’s embayment. Photo: Jeremiah Klein San Clemente Pier sits smack in the middle of the San Juan Bight’s embayment. Photo: Klein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/90e78c84-3b0e-47a7-b7d0-48c3de845411/OC-scaled.jpeg Updates - Anatomy of a SoCal Sand Crisis - San Juan Creek Watershed overdevelopment. San Juan Creek Watershed overdevelopment. Photo: BBOB https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/be553e75-e9ae-4261-8107-84d10976e414/Armoring_Riverbank_IMG_9396-1200x900.jpg Updates - Anatomy of a SoCal Sand Crisis - Armoring a SoCal riverbank — a common site. Armoring a SoCal riverbank — a common site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/1587dadb-0640-4af4-879d-95bebb89bef4/klein_cottons_sanclemente2014_2650.jpg Updates - Anatomy of a SoCal Sand Crisis - Cottons, Hurricane Marie. Photo: Klein Cottons, Hurricane Marie. Photo: Klein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/1737e796-945d-4777-9edf-d800d84e976e/image0+%282%29.png Updates - Anatomy of a SoCal Sand Crisis - Hurricane Marie’s beach-width drop-off. Hurricane Marie’s beach-width drop-off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/1df69064-c035-48c1-9f9a-eb5fd36b6482/13-Klein_state-park-scaled.jpg Updates - Anatomy of a SoCal Sand Crisis - SC beachbreak, post sand replenishment. Photo: Jeremiah Klein SC beachbreak, post sand replenishment. Photo: Jeremiah Klein https://www.bringbackourbeaches.com/updates/unintended-consequences-long-beach monthly 0.5 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/e3562ea0-767f-475d-806d-1db2a4dcfaee/Unintended+Consequences...+Long+Beach+Harbor.jpg Updates - The Long Beach SuperBank - Unintended Consequences https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/802b07ed-483b-46fa-a1bc-cfb2b708c583/Unintended+Consequences...+Long+Beach+Harbor+%281%29.jpg Updates - The Long Beach SuperBank - While construction of breakwaters for LA Harbor began in 1899, the wave called Flood Control was initially created when a jetty was built to 1) direct the LA River into the ocean and 2) form a protected harbor for Navy ships on the other side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/1750257840063-PKMK73B5D9Z5AE3OKHYI/Unintended+Consequences...+Long+Beach+Harbor+%282%29.jpg Updates - The Long Beach SuperBank https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/1750257732055-U2YMZ2S4BVVWDGUFQNP7/Unintended+Consequences...+Long+Beach+Harbor+%284%29.jpg Updates - The Long Beach SuperBank https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/1750257733395-UG9WZJ26MMSECTT9RHWP/Unintended+Consequences...+Long+Beach+Harbor+%283%29.jpg Updates - The Long Beach SuperBank https://www.bringbackourbeaches.com/updates/unintended-consequences-puerto-escondido monthly 0.5 2025-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/5ce62106-4485-4cca-b69d-827c90914b24/1.+Puerto+%28Klein%29.jpg Updates - Disrupting the Mexican Pipeline - Unintended Consequences https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/6b980a82-0167-4165-9ec3-c4a360b579cf/2.+Puerto+-+aerial+%281%29.jpg Updates - Disrupting the Mexican Pipeline - Lately, though, Puerto’s legacy is in trouble. In 1998, a jetty was constructed at the north end of Playa Zicatela beach. While the intent was to create a safer anchorage for local fishing boats—which it did—the structure also came with a price. Now, the jetty catches sand that would otherwise exit the natural sand system, causing the beach to fill in behind the jetty and expand the main beaches to the south. In conjunction with Puerto’s offshore deep water canyon, this natural sand flow was crucial for the wave's formation. The clear effects of all this extra sand has been two-fold. If you just want to hang out on the beach, then sure, you’ll enjoy the extra real estate. But its effect on the world-famous surf break has been negative and unanimously evident. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/451006e7-d35a-493e-af99-786589e2e58c/5.+Puerto+%28Klein%29+%281%29.jpg Updates - Disrupting the Mexican Pipeline - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.bringbackourbeaches.com/updates/business-of-beaches-south-carolina monthly 0.5 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/078ae370-c18e-428e-a56a-186ed581dfaf/klein_vissla_north_carolina_OBX_2020_014544.jpeg Updates - Returns on Sand in the Palmetto State https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/1750260813414-076F9G4DU9RJHZN1EI41/jeremy-kierez-y4UVpYGtUA8-unsplash.jpg Updates - Returns on Sand in the Palmetto State https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/1750260810507-52DIYB8XYDY1KGEZBFZ2/high-tide-content-T9Y61ABO2QY-unsplash.jpg Updates - Returns on Sand in the Palmetto State https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64417018e953c82030999694/2ac827a8-3da0-4029-b1f6-71e0e27b8513/klein_usopen2011_6142.jpg Updates - Returns on Sand in the Palmetto State - And yet… On a national level, when it comes to investing in and protecting this precious resource, it’s wildly underfunded. Out of the 3.4 billion beach visits annually in the US, with annual expenditures of $175 million for beach nourishment—approximately $0.05 is spent on beach nourishment for every beach visit, (with about half of that (($0.025)) funded by the federal government. The other half funded by state/local governments. For perspective, put those 3.4 billion US beach visits up against the 327 million visits to national parks. National parks have a budget of $3.2 billion, and the federal government spends $9.79 for every visit to a national park compared to $0.025 for every beach visitor. 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