LITTLE EGG INLET STANDS OUT: For mariners duly concerned with the ongoing, pretty much out-of-control shoaling within Little Egg Inlet, have I got an odd background story for you. And don’t shoot the messenger.

It seems that federal authorities, along with some geo-centric conservationists, are actually infatuated with Little Egg Inlet’s wildness, dubbing it the last living example of a “natural inlet,” twixt Georgia and Maine – in other words, just about the entire Eastern Seaboard.