Of Rare Jetty Beach, Army Corps Says, ‘You’ll Probably Never See It Again’

OCEAN CITY -- A rare, if never-before-seen, anomaly appeared at the Ocean City Inlet this week in the form of a wide, flat sandy beach on the south side of the north jetty in an typically under water and pounded by waves.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which plowed through the resort area in late October, nearly all of the beaches in the area were altered to some degree and some more than others as sand was eroded from certain areas and deposited in others by the storm. Perhaps the most startling change was revealed this week when a sandy spit of new beach as wide as 25 feet at times depending on the tide appeared on the south side of the rocky north jetty, which, along with the south jetty opposite, provide the bookends for the Inlet created by a storm nearly eight decades ago.

Throughout last weekend, curiosity seekers posed for pictures and walked along the new, albeit, temporary beach. On Monday, some fishermen had set up shop on the new sandy expanse, gaining further access to the deep channel than would normally be afforded by fishing from the jetty. Locals and long-timers this week all agreed they had never seen a sandy beach in that area on the south side of Inlet’s north jetty before.
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