The residents, too, are steady and relentless. Lots of them operate their own roadside businesses, cafes, small groceries, gift shops, or motels and cabins, beachside, that splay out in strips toward the shore. Nothing fancy - certainly nothing like the condominium comfort of the shore to the north. Nothing fancy in these people either, just folks. Lots of the locals have been here for years.
Visitors seem the same, in their own steady, relentless effort to get to the ocean, year after year.
It was my family s pursuit, when I was small. It is still mine. Whenever we talked about the ocean, it was this stretch we talked about. We rarely went anywhere else. I m convinced it was the simplicity of the place and the friendships we formed that kept us coming back year after year during my father s spring break.