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Miyazaki Coast

That's 1,200 dumptrucks of dredged (gotta check on that) sand. I wonder how much tax money that was. How long before this sand works it's way back to the Port Jetties where it will have to be dredged again? The 'institutionalization of erosion' is just nu	What are all these waiting for? They look used, except of the two sharply cornered ones. Another publicly funded (I'm pretty sure) tourist building in the back. Public funds for tourism? Just doesn't make sense to me.	My foot for scale. These tetrapods are huge. Waste of money but reading Coastal Scientist Pilkey let me understand it could be worse. A solid wall that doesn't let any wave energy through can leave the coast as a mud flat instead of sandy beach. The wave	I still can't get over how these 50,000 yen (5,000 dollar) pods just sink into the sand. A kind business man from Mexico asked me why people in Hong Kong call Japan the (Tierra de lleso?) Land of Cement. I didn't notice for a few years but it's everywhere	I felt like I was looking a tetra pod (wave suppressing cement block) graveyard with some kind of obelisk in the background. Public money buried in the sand to protect a tourist attraction building built with still more public money. I guess it's not as b
That's 1,200 dump trucks worth of sand put there. It should be interesting to see how long it lasts. Who how this sand with the black clay-like chunks, black plastic netted tarps and who know what else will do the ecology of the area. There were some neat	There used to be expansive beaches here. Then they built a toll road on the sand dunes disturbing the beach cycle. The dams keeping the rivers from bringing sand down from the mountains is no help either. Here's some shovel-ready projects in Japan. Clean	500 meters of diverse tidal wetland behind Miyazaki City's megamall. Tons of edible acorns around too. Where would you rather go? One of the few parts of the nearby coast not screwed up by invasive construction projects (airport, regular port, yacht harbo	Sure, it's a outjutting boondoggle blocking Sand from Oyodo River that should be repleneshing beaches but it was a beautiful bike ride.	Isegahama Beach Surroundings, rotating left from previous picture of coast to the South.

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