While I'm on the topic

...of signs, here's another I snapped the other day. Helen's Bay is the next town over from Crawfordsburn. Houses here are way out of our price range. When I first walked up Helen's Bay beach and saw a sign, I made this assumption that the sign would say something about it being a private beach, or I needed to buy a permit, or it would list all the things I couldn't do.

In fact, it's just information about the countours of the beach shelf and about rough seas after rain.

I found that touching. There's a golf course opposite the beach. I walked around the course with Maysie on a path that has expensive homes on one side and the course on the other. Again, I was expecting a lot of "Private Property" signs, or "Protected by Smith and Wesson", or, at the very least, "Stay on the Path." There were no signs.

There are a quite a few things that are invisible to me in the U.S. that become visible by their absence here. Strip malls, for instance. Beach houses--there aren't houses along the coast. Two golf courses, but no houses. Bumper stickers--people don't have bumper stickers here. I don't miss that at all. I don't need to know whose kid is an honour student or what university they attended or where they vacation. My world is not poorer for not knowing that.
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