Carol and Carib,

I don’t think what Carib describes is normal, but trust me, it’s not all that abnormal either, just as is the case at Maho Beach. The ocean comes and goes taking what she wants when she wants it and usually returns it at her leisure. Another case in point is Cupecoy Beach. For the first fifteen years or so we visited the island there was always plenty of beach from the Cupecoy Beach Club area all the way up to past the Ocean Club to about where Dany set up shop, or at least there was anytime we were on island. And then it went away for a few years and has been coming and going regularly ever since.

The ocean is an incredible phenomenon. In all the years we’ve been visiting there, Mullet Beach has never been known to us as a seashell spot yet my daughter and her family were there one summer and my granddaughter collected every kind, shape and color of whole seashells you could imagine. We were amazed and to this day we’ve yet to see such a thing.

The concrete structures, including the Shipwreck and her bar plus the other accommodations there were dated from the early days of Mullet Bay Resort & Casino, pre Luis and were pretty much destroyed between that storm and the following hurricane season. The only thing that remained was the sidewalk and those wonderful Mullet restrooms that some might recall.

We used to walk the beach from point to point, or from what was known as the Honeymoon Walk to the rocky promenade that was home to the fabled Building 90 and occasional huge boulders jutting out of the sand were a fairly common thing on the far end of the beach.