I hadn't been down to the beach in a while. Combination of not feeling well and rainy, humid weather anyway. But I went down there for a walk tonight only to find pretty much the last remaining stretch of peaceful, uncluttered beachfront erased by the newly renovated and now open Bali Hyatt. There used to be a long metal fence between the property and the beach along this stretch but now that has come down and the hotel has spilled out like blubber over an obese man's belt. Fancy foo-foo restaurants and manicured gardens and polished concrete walkways and swimming pools (yes, plural) now crowd and shoulder their way to the edge of the sand and beyond, and the sand itself is dotted with signs, like military pickets--These chairs for hotel guests only! Bloody muckers.
This used to be a nice place to come for a leisurely swim or picnic. It was like a breath of unfettered air, away from the madding crowd of tourists and restaurants and shops and loud music. You could come here and throw out a towel, a patch of tall grass at your back, a square of shade from a tree, enjoy a cold bottle of soda, read a book, listen to the restful sighing of the surf.
No more.
And I can think of no remaining peaceful place, at this point, from one end of the oceanfront to the other.
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
This used to be a nice place to come for a leisurely swim or picnic. It was like a breath of unfettered air, away from the madding crowd of tourists and restaurants and shops and loud music. You could come here and throw out a towel, a patch of tall grass at your back, a square of shade from a tree, enjoy a cold bottle of soda, read a book, listen to the restful sighing of the surf.
No more.
And I can think of no remaining peaceful place, at this point, from one end of the oceanfront to the other.
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
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