* The author is part of the community of readers of La Vanguardia
In recent weeks it seemed that the sea was giving way to the beach; sun, blue sky, flat and windless sea. Inside there were some clouds, but nothing that would cast any doubt on the good weather that the coast of the capital of Garraf, Vilanova i la Geltrú, was exhibiting.
However, two days before, the sea, bored with so much calm and pushed by winds from the west, began to ripple its waters and raise powerful and furious waves.
This situation of rough seas was the delight of the surfers, who rushed with their boards to slide in breakers of between 2 and 4 meters.
That beach that seemed to gain ground for a day, was shaken and bitten by tons of salt water falling on its sands almost vertically.
The Platja de Far, broken, loses its sand, as we see in The Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia, and does not know when it will recover it. If the sea wants it, it will return it, if not, it will need machinery and labor for the huge numbers of bathers who will come to their summer date by train or car. They need sand, lots of beach, calm sea and a green flag.
