Dune

摘要

Sam smith never lets the weather spoil his days at the beach. A former engineer for Gold Coast City, he's been watching the same stretch of Queensland shoreline for 30 years, and he's stood on the dunes during five cyclones. "I've seen a lot of dirty stuff up here on the Gold Coast," he says. Dirty stuff notwithstanding, everybody wants a beachfront property on this stretch of coast, in romantically named spots such as Rainbow Bay, Currumbin, Kurrawa, Coolangatta, and, er, Nobby's Beach. But build your house on sand and you might be in for trouble. Beaches are shifty places at the best of times, and if a storm comes along you want solid sea walls to protect you—right? Well, not necessarily. Smith knows the beaches here better than anyone, and he's convinced they are masters of self-defence.