At the end of the curving beach, the cove, if you will sit the pier - it's not romantic, not a 100 year odd wooden structure with giant timbers fighting the waves. bare sides, great for jumping from, to test your manlihood. This was not the pier of his youth a place he walked with girls, a place he lay down on at 1am looked up to the stars and pledged his dreams.
No this is utilitarian, bare concrete, a modern necessary. Built with government funding, the numbers stacked up, increased business and all that. And try as they might, the endless parade of tourists they couldn't quite capture the magic.
