One Down... One to Go

One of he big topics at Monday night's January 18th Lido Shores Property Association Annual Meeting at Bird Key Yacht Club was beach erosion and a pair of missing benches.You know, the pair emblazoned with our name that used to reside just to the north of our beach entrance. The benches that so many of us have watched the sunset from. Those benches.

Ravaged beach where benches were ripped by waves from their moorings.

They were ripped from their anchors and washed away in Sunday morning's violent storm that battered the Lido Key coastline. The furious waves also gouged and reclaimed nearly six more linear feet of sand from our already vanishing shoreline.

The very same benches had disappeared just three-months earlier, high tide pushing them several hundred feet up the beach and burying them in sand. They were found, dug up and re-anchored.

So go figure. On Tuesday morning,  January 19th, one of the lost benches was found, again. This time, the bench had turned the corner heading north and east into New Pass before it ran aground. (Yes, it's made of plastic wood and designed to float, sort of.) It was spotted by workers leaning  against the rocks along the Marine Max seawall on City Island.

The Edstroms enjoying a LSPOA bench before the storm.

Stephen Acker from Marine Max recognized Lido Shores engraved on the bench, tracked LSPOA down and sent an email to outgoing President Anne Essner asking if we would like to have it back. Of course we do.

We contacted Acker Tuesday afternoon. Marine Max is graciously going to have one it's workers with a pickup truck haul the wayward bench back to Lido Shores on Friday. We'll keep it safely on high ground until further notice.

Meantime, keep your eyes peeled for Bench #2. One down... one to go.

We'll post a complete wrap up, with highlights and lots of pictures of Monday night's spirited LSPOA Annual Meeting later this week.

~BT