A SURFER'S LAMENT: R.I.P. BELOVED BEACH

摘要

In 2004 I landed a job as an editor at Florida Sportsman and bought a house near its offices in Martin County, Florida, about an hour north of where I grew up in West Palm Beach. Getting me to move there didn't take much arm-twisting. It's right wherernNorth America's most biologically diverse estuaries abut some of the world's most important sea turtle nesting beaches. Just offshore, reefs provide food and shelter for more than 530 species of marine life: corals, sea turtles, snapper, grouper, eels, and lobster. I can take my boat to work via the St. Lucie River, leisurely winding my way through mangrove rookeries, and even catch a snook dinner on my way home. And as a surfer I find that the nearshore reefs provide yet another enticement: consistent and shapely waves roll in off several of the few natural surf breaks in Florida.