San Remo Beach.

On our way to the holiday house where we were to stay whilst at Cowes, we stopped on the Sam Remo side of the bridge to Philip Island and I went for a walk from the Jetty around the point towards the back beach. It has changed a lot since the last time I made that attempt. Obviously there has been a lot of erosion of the sand dunes as lots of big rocks have been deposited along the tide line of the beach with some wooden step accesses to the beach at various places.

When I was walking there it was close to high tide so walking along the rocks, although not impossible, was not easy, so I anticipated just walking along to one of theses wooden step accesses and upon using it to escape from the beach and rocks, find my way back to Main Street through a back street or two.

Well the first two I tried, led back to the back of a Caravan park but both were blocked off and escape could not be made using either of them. I decided then not to try further on, but to back- track the way I came, to the car. Much closer to the start was another walkway offering a short cut but it too led to a dead end. This time, in an old car park, now blocked off with a giant heap of these stones now being uses to hold up the shoreline.

All these still functioning access stairways offered hope of access or escape from the beach but were ultimately useless. In fact, worse than useless, as they offered hope and expectation of a way to escape the beach and rocks. An expectation of a way out that led to dead ends and thus time and energy were wasted just trying to use them.

Yes all offered the hope of escape or a short cut away from the rocks on the beach but that hope was misleading and false.

Oh yes at one time it was a genuine hope and help but now that hope was not only false but possibly dangerous if it had have been an emergency. These supposed accesses should either be completely removed or else properly signed at the beach-end as being out of commission temporarily.

But what about us? Are there things in our own lives that we once did that although once effective and useful now offer false hope or expectations to others around us. Do we need to remove some things now no longer operating in our lives and perhaps put up a few new current and relevant signs? I’m still thinking about it so, over to you: Walter