This is my post for #freewriters Friday prompt enter at your peril hosted by @daily.promt
The picture is of my Dad sitting on the south jetty of the Sebastian Inlet, it was taken in the early 1960s. He leased 15 acres on the south side of the inlet from the County in 1952, he paid 48 dollars a year.
The inlet is known as one of the most dangerous inlets on the entire east coast of Florida.
They have a sign that means enter at your peril local knowledge is needed to navigate the inlet. In this picture, you can see a commercial boat is about to come into the inlet.
There are times when no one goes out of it. Many boats have been sunk because they get in the middle of it and decide that it is too rough and try to turn around, this is when they sink. You have to go on through it and turn around out of the tide water. Now you either decide if you can make it back through, or you wait for it to change to the flood tide.
There is a bridge here and the wooden things are the fenders that hold up the ends of the catwalks and make a marked area for boats to go through. The tide runs very hard. When I was a kid I would swim across to the north side and come in at this cove. I would start on the end of the ebb tide near the west end of the inlet and swim across. When the tide changed, I would swim back.
Dad forbids us to go out of the inlet in our little boats. He didn't even like for us to have a boat. We would find boats that broke loose from someone's dock during a storm, we tried to keep them hidden but Dad always found out and we had to give them back.
From this picture, I can tell the tide is changing and the wind had been blowing from the east for several days because the ocean water coming in looks like weak chocolate milk from being stirred up by the wind.
This is the south side, where I spent the first 15 years of my life. It looked a lot different when I lived there, this is after the State has had it for 30 years. It used to have tall pine trees all over it and a beautiful sandy shoreline.
This photo is looking at the same fender and cove as the one above. Someone drifted into the Fender. If you do not have the right type of anchor, it will not hold in the inlet and this can happen. I was searching for a boat wreck on Google and did not find it but found this picture.
I copied this from
https://www.google.com/search?q=1925+boat+sinking+sebastian+inlet+fl&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS914US914&oq=1925+boat+sinking+sebastian+inlet+fl&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.3094299323j1j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=6B9Ygcl_tJXMdM&ip=1
copied from https://www.sebastianinletcam.com/
We had a wicked thunderstorm last night and I took this picture from the inlet webcam of the lightning east of the inlet.
All photos except the bottom 2 are mine