Crashing on the Shore

Waves on Jupiter Island
Tequesta, FL
August 21, 2025

 Chris and I went to the beach yesterday and experience the huge waves from Hurricane Erin. 

And they were!

Crashing on the beach and eroding the sand. Turtle nests were being destroyed and it was sad, but it was nature. The ones high up on the dunes were safe and the turtles that dug those nests were champions of evolution. 

I took a video of the waves rolling onto the beach. They were ferocious and I am very happy the storm passed us by.  

The ICW looking at Jupiter Island
Tequesta, FL
August 21, 2025

But, weirdly, on the other side of the Jupiter Island the ICW was calm.

It was such a different scene from the ocean. The protected ICW was available for pleasure boating without restrictions. 

It amazed me how such widely different conditions could be separated by only a hundred yards or so of land. 

Inland, it was a beautiful evening to enjoy dinner at Tiki52 and look out at the ICW where there were boats and people actually waterskiing. The breeze made the evening enjoyable and Chris, I, and Finn had a great time just bing there enjoying the scene, the people, and the waitstaff. 

But to think, only a few thousand feet away the ocean beach was being ravaged by Hurricane Erin's storm-tossed waves.  

-- Bob Doan, Tequesta, FL

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