Beach Dragons raking the Sand Garden in "Winter"

Take your rake and clean the beach from north to south...That looks like monks work, raking the gravel garden of a cloister up into an impeccable combed garden order. But in our technological days we have found the remedy against the impossibilities of such an endless boring cleaning operation. Beaches have become the operational “arena” for mass tourism and works with adequate operational instruments - as long as our crisis-budget can afford it.

And so the Public Beaches Exploitation Company has put into action a set of heavy cleaning engins. As soon as the season starts they will clean the beach each night. So, when you’re really up to have a early swim in the sea at dawn - we talk about May until September - you may enter the beach, suprised by a completely reshapen sandscape, no rubbish at all!, no dirty holes. As if the farmers are coming to sow in the hole area.

There you walk gently as a the first man ever to explore virgin sands, barefoot in the Zen-raked humid sand. This, I can tell you, gives a very special titilation under your footpads. Most effective against chronic depression, I can assure you. Meanwhile pay attention not to be overrun by a loudly roaring Cleaning Dragon..and enjoy your golden sea bath.

Our Civilized Garden of Eden needs Cultivation, indeed Monsieur Voltaire.. But wouldn’t it be a better idea to turn every citizen into an Enlightened Sandman taking his responsibility for the cleaning and raking of one square meter of Beach&Sand. Everage surface to dig holes & pits, install windshields etc., leave rubbish. So no one can complain about unjust extra charging.

By the way, why was this whole cleaning operation underway already in the second week of February? With all the storms and flooding still to come, before the preparing of the new season can start in the beginning of March? Do you have any reasonable explanation for that, Monsieur Voltaire? Or do we have to ask the gulls, the crows and the cormorants for some enlightening answer?