These trucks from the AEP came out Tuesday to replace the conduit beside the power pole. The conduit has been rusted for years. One of the workers had a surprise. He said he was discreetly relieving himself between the trucks and the HEB brush when he noticed our security camera attached to the pole was aimed right at him. You never know where those cameras are looking these days.

The summer solstice high tides did a number on the HEB beach. The tides are normal now and it looks like about twenty feet of beach are missing. It's now called "walking in the brush" rather than "walking on the beach". Had we not built our seawall in 1985 the water line would now be nearing our swimming pool.
Yesterday a guest fished the HEB point in the morning and came back with three keeper trout. A guest in 208 said he worked Long Reef pretty hard yesterday and caught only two keepers. He was working on his engine getting ready for today. He did say he turned 91 in February and it was hard to stay out more than four hours or he would have picked up more trout.
The new pier in now at about 472 feet and work on it continues. Today, I understand, they will work on the Phase I pier lights. There are 17 lights and only 9 are working at this time and some of those are only 150 watt reflector lights. The most frequent complaint that I hear is about the boat tie up situation. The new finger piers don't allow four point tie up and unless a boater has side bumpers, a boat cannot be secured. This was pointed out during construction to no avail. At this point another post is needed near the sidewalk between the finger piers to improved the situation. Some boaters have put their boats back on the trailer over night because they cannot secure them in the water.
I visited with Betty Brooks(502) yesterday. She is back and seems to be doing well.