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Honeymoon Renourishment: A Review From 2016

I was just going through posts to reorganize the opinion section of this site and came across this post from 2016. It’s a really great depiction of how ineffective the t-goins are. It’s an add on article for the recently written article titled, Honeymoon Island Beach Renourishment: He wants more, don’t give it to him. It was really only a year or less before all the sand placed on the beach dissapeared. T-goins suck!

From previous article:
The foreground of this image is of the beach closer to the existing T-groin. This section of beach was re-nourished with sand just this past year. As you can see there are a considerable amount of lime rocks on what is left of the beach.

Surprise Swell June 2018, 11:30am & 3:30pm

Snook were stacked up on the beach today. With the clearer than usual water the fishies were happy campers, able to see and breathe. On many rides they were seen cruising around. It was a mid-ougoing tide and the fish were sitting stacked up on the small rockpiles situated in between the two jetties. They were corralled into the pockets of rock sitting on the sandy spots. Others were along the inside edge of the sand bar. Most of them were way undersize, somewhere between a foot and a foot and a half long 12-18 inches. It would have been a great day to catch a bunch of way undersize snook.

Saganaki Bomb Squad Dropping Bombs on a Friday Night

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Honeymoon Island Beach Renourishment: He wants more, don’t give it to him!

The t-groins are a bad idea, and encouraging this rate of sand loss by throwing more money at it is an even worse idea.   Unfortunately, the groins just can’t hold sand. The water flow around and over them washes away the sand. These things are plain and simply the worst possible solution to the erosion problem at Honeymoon Island.

Take a close look at the sea grapes and sabal palms (state tree) from before the dredge in 2014, then take a look at the pictures of what’s left of those same trees in Spring 2018.  Continue reading Honeymoon Island Beach Renourishment: He wants more, don’t give it to him!

Honeymoon Island State Park is About to Become Two Islands!

Honeymoon Island has for many years had a nice long beach you could walk along just north of the furthest most parking lot. You could walk the full length of the island all the way down to the northern tip where a nice white sandy sanctuary awaits. Somewhat recently, the beach to walk along has completely disappeared. And more shocking than that, the rapidly deteriorating island is Continue reading Honeymoon Island State Park is About to Become Two Islands!

They Lied To You – There’s No More Left – T-groins Are Ineffective


This is a gallery showing the little sand left at Honeymoon Island State Park since the dredge/fill beach renourishment, and t-groins were added. Conceptually, these rock t-groins, which were actually experimentally tried here first in the county, were supposed to be holding sand on the south side of the groin. The sand was also supposed to be transplanted to the area in front of the Cafe at Honeymoon Island. That means, in the pictures from the gallery, there’s supposed to be sand in front of the parking lot where you see water almost washing away the parking lot, at the end of the boardwalk were the water is washing under the boardwalk, and on the south side of the groin in general. There isn’t. The idea is that there be a beach for people to use. Of course, Florida is made of sand, so there will always be sand here. On the low tide you will always see sand. When we talk about beach we’re talking about the part where the high tide doesn’t touch. You can see from the pictures there isn’t any beach left. The parking lot will soon be dismantled like it was at the north lot years ago. The irrational idea that these t-groins are working is just absolutely absurd, and anyone who suggests it to you is out of their mind.