We ran into this scene the morning after camping on the beach last weekend. As we walked up to the group of people, I thought there might be a beached whale or something. But no, it was a sinking, wrecked SUV.

I didn’t get an explanation as to why the car was there, although I’m guessing that the driver was 4-wheeling around on the beach and rolled it off the ledge in the sand. I vaguely remember hearing sirens that night in my sleep, but could be mistaken.

It looked like the volunteer fire department was going to try to pull the car out of the sand. The SUV was tied up to one of their fire engines with some rope. After about 15 minute of waiting for them to start pulling, one of the firemen gave a signal and two others ran over with a bolt cutter and removed the two ropes. Then they all piled into their two fire engines and left. Puzzling.