Been wondering for sometime whether they were removed or buried during a renourishment project, for those that have no idea what I'm talking about the slabs were piled up all along the dune line to help stop erosion. I suspect they were removed when they tore down the old boardwalk there. Navigating your way down the slabs could be a challenge and the slip and ding factor high lol!

I remember big swells would remove all the sand and leave the slabs exposed with the steps 4 feet off the ground then a week later you couldn't see a single rock with all the sand returned, amazing to see how quick it returned to normal. I swear it broke better back then...

I think they are buried.  I definitely remember them 15 years ago playing with my kids in them and doing what surfers do cracking jokes and so forth. 

It was a formidable wall.

About 20 years ago they built a PEP Reef in Vero with car size cement blocks of concrete placed parallel to the beach about 20 ft out. They have since sunk and are buried. It cracks me up every time someone says we should start dumping some cinder blocks out there to create a reef. You know just take one out each time we paddle out and drop it. LOL

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I think they are buried and now seagrape grow on top of them.

I remember at one point there was no beach. Only a decent down the stairs on to the rocks or almost straight into the ocean. Tables is another beach that has changed. The sand is much higher where the boardwalk sits. But the beach extended out further.

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My parents went to Cocoa Beach and all I got was this lousy surfboard!

Those slabs have sunken deep, deep into the primordial radioactive goo under PAFB,

and now, are not only alive, but sentient!

and align themselves into a perfect point break when summoned by....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(tiptime, of course)

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and I remember when their were no stairs .... you just had to climb down the rocks.



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I remember those big ole hunks of concrete, I have a pic of me sitting on them somewhere (circa 1994-ish).

It did break better back then, I swear it did!

Also, I'm old and getting older by the minute....damn there's another gray hair!

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Are the old pier pylons still out there around Hangers?

Been wondering about those as well.

2cd fright, climbing the rocks and rebar,Time it so a wave does not knock you down, and suck you and board across those rocks.

You could also pull up and see the break while in your car jamming to Judas Priest and the waves were better.

The concrete slabs were all removed during the big beach renourishment (?) project. They brought in an excavator and dug them all out and trucked them away. I can neither confirm nor deny the rumor the slabs are somewhere inland, under hay bales in a horse pasture, beside a pallet, protected by a firearm toting mad woman.

Always enjoyed going across the concrete chunks. it was like a test of balance and agility.

I pull up one afternoon and a couple of 10 year olds are breaking beer bottles on the slabs, they caught a scoulding

Crap.  I remember those and the pier pilings at hangers.  Feeling old... lol

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If you want to hit a home run, you have to swing the bat.

I used to get a lot of ding business out of that concrete.

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I was right.

Hahaha, I only stole things small enough to pick up, like PALLETS. What a WTF moment...

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Similar memory. Anyone remember surfing South Beach area in the 80's? It was full of concrete block and slabs. Scary crap in the shorepound.

There are some exposed at at Hangers now.