Is sand gravity a choice? Trip report 2014

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View from our beach chairs.



Obligatory foot on the beach chair picture!



The beach through the tree as I looked at it every day!
A story about those beach chairs, though. On our second day there we were having breakfast and if you aren't familiar with Idle Awhile's set up, their restaurant is right on the beach and is basically a covered bar next to a wooden floor where all the tables are set up with a fabric sail roof. In other words it is all open and right on the beach. Our chairs were set up with a table between them and folded towels laid out on the back of the chair. To the front and a little to the right of our chairs were two more chairs set up exactly the same way under a small palm tree. There was a very nice woman who was staying there with her daughter and I see her walking by the restaurant to the beach where she heads right for our chairs. Now honestly, I'm not that fussy about where our chairs are because if you aren't set up under a tree they will set up lovely umbrellas to sit under and it's all on the same beautiful beach so what's the big deal. HOWEVER, if Eric is going to set up our chairs under the big tree every morning and save them for us, I'll take it. But I see this woman head to the chairs Eric has set up for us and then I see Eric come over and tell her that they are set up for someone else and he leads her to the other two chairs under the palm tree. So she sets up there but after a few minutes she gets up and walks back to our chairs and is sort of looking them over, then walks back to her chairs and then back to our chairs, etc. so I kind of get the idea that she really wants to sit on those chairs, she likes that set up better than the one she has. We are leaving right after lunch that day for an excursion so I point out what is happening to my husband and suggest that since we're only going to be there a few hours maybe we can let her have those chairs. No big deal. He immediately agrees and after finishing breakfast we head to the chairs and he walks up to the woman (we never did get her name) and suggests that it's fine with us if she wants those chairs. She immediately agrees, jumps up, collects her stuff and heads over to our chairs and settles in. Now we didn't want to hurt Eric's feelings either as he had gone to so much trouble to protect that spot for us so we explained to Eric that as we were leaving early we were switching, no problem. So we settle in for the morning enjoying our lovely spot. Later on while we're in the water I notice this woman pacing the beach again going from her new spot to her old spot and back again and something in her posture just told me that there was something up again, she was unhappy. Sure enough my husband goes back up to the chairs while I stay in the water and after a few minutes I see her walk over to my husband and say something and then walk back to her chair. Then up she is again and walks over to him again and says something and they have a short conversation and she goes back to her chair and sits down. When I came back to the chairs I said to my husband "That woman is still not happy is she?" and he tells me that she came over and commented on how hot it was and that there was no breeze where she was sitting and then came over a little while later and said again that it was so hot and no breeze and did we have a breeze where we were sitting. It became obvious to my husband that she felt we had somehow pulled a fast one on her and stolen the better spot! People are so funny! My husband offered to switch back again if she wanted, happy to do it, but no she didn't want that. We left soon after that so don't know what happened for the rest of that day but the next day when she came out she headed right to the two chairs under the palm tree and never gave a second glance to our spot. No good deed goes unpunished!
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