St. Joseph Peninsula

At the end of Cape San Blas is St. Joseph Peninsula.  A narrow strip of land heading north for 20 miles.  It's the fastest eroding stretch of beach in the U.S.  It's a natural event that's been going on for thousands of years, no global warming culprit here.  On the Cape, where we are staying, the beach is broad and then there's an extensive set of dunes.  On the peninsula the beach is narrow and the dunes brief and eroding rapidly.  Here's some pics from our walk on the south end.

The far south end of the peninsula, a rock wall has been built to protect the highway.  This area of beach was restored several years ago by dredging sand in...at the owners' expense.  It will be necessary to keep doing this every 10 years or so.

Not sure where this place landed from or what era this architecture was popular.

The beach looking north, very much an Outer Banks feel.

Headed back to the south.

The last major hurricane here was about 10 years ago, the same one that flattened Captiva and Sanibel.  About 50 homes were lost here, this one survived but they have had to put in new footing under the old one.  These units are probably one good tropical storm away from condemnation.  Moral of story, don't build on land that isn't sticking around very long.

Yes, even the poop buckets are impacted.