Hey Elisa ! Great project there you're participating in ! There are projects like that on our coasts too. There's one I'm familiar with and much bermuda grass has been planted. I can provide with that, I've got quite a lot in my garden, but then so has Tox and I guess he won't mind sharing ;-) The bermuda is growing right there in the sand, sometimes in a mat of dead algae full of salt, no much rain and when there is it is a lot, and this grass is doing a good job rebuilding the dunes. There's also a nice bush that is used which is sea buckthorn, or scientific name hippophae ramnoides. It's a real nice bush with orange fruits in winter, and it grows in sand and doesn't mind salt. On top of that sea buckthorn fixes nitrogen like legumes so it helps the grass underneath. If you're the one with the cash then you can choose to hold the dune and feed the birds with nice bushes ! Only downside of sea buckthorn is that it is a dioecious bush, you need males and females to get fruits, and I think it must be watered the first year it is planted so as to settle properly in the sand. As for building houses where they're going to be washed away or flooded... not really dumbness, but rather greed ;-)Those nice views of the sea from the windows are worth millions aren't they, until it's the underworld and the fish one can see from the windows !

I guess you would say the ending is sad. I'm planning to watch it again. In the movie the girl didn't buy a B&B she was just helping out. I never could get through the audio book, but the movie is great!

Great Great movie......my evening....cooking dinner and hauling dirt for my new flower bed I hope I can get DH to help it is sooo hot but I really want to get it filled tonight!! Stacy

Alisande....I'm with you....have watched both recently. Loved Paula Prentiss and Jim Hutton in WTBA as well as Dolores Hart. Also, all the Gidget movies as Fun mentioned and the Annette Funicello/Frankie Avalon Beach Blanket Bingo movies. Seems like we would go to the movies every week in the summer to see one of these...they take me right back to my childhood in SoCal.