I need surfers, surfcasters and Holgaters to gather around the crackling campfire with me, to talk about … a giant, 1,000-foot groin, slowly inching its way toward us as we speak. “Run away!” Right?

No need to rush blindly into the forest. This is a groin of a different color, so to speak. It’s the type of groin made of rock and built perpendicular to the beach, where it theoretically slows beach erosion.