Source: www.coastalwatch.com
Text: Tim Baker
Photo: Morris
Lance’s Rights looked like Sunset Beach — 12- to 15-foot bombs exploding on the outside reef and a small, gung-ho crew towing and paddling into cavernous tubes so outrageous it looked like some crazy surf cartoon fantasy.
Meanwhile, on land, the recently opened Katiet Villas surf resort was suffering a less happy, but no less dramatic fate — the mega-swell, new moon and king tide combining to decimate their once immaculate beachfront. We awoke to waves literally lapping at our doors, large logs rolling around in the shorebreak and a small river running through the resort. I joked we’d been upgraded to water bungalows, though no one was doing much laughing.
Just the day before, two warring white men had sat down with lawyers and police at this very resort in an attempt to thrash out the disputed land title to this prized beachfront site. Less than 24 hours later, the ocean had very nearly wiped it off the map, like a scolding parent declaring, “Well, if you can’t play nicely, then none of you shall have it.”
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