I guess I count as living by water, since I'm on a sandbar 2 miles out in the Atlantic.
I don't collect driftwood, but it sells like fresh hotcakes here. The tourists an home owners who rent to them buy it all day long. It seems to make a great decoration for their houses. They pull it out of the ocean, an the sound. I never got in to it cause it's more competitive then anything else down here short of fishing an crabbing. To many yahoo's with a boat going out an pulling it in. It's a good money earner tho from what I see. When I do go for it, it's for my own personal use, cause I think it's cool.
It's much easier to find sound side then it is ocean side, lest down here. For some reason the majority of it's plucked out of the sound. Weird, I know.
If you do it, good luck! Charge the tourist, they can afford it. Ha ha!
Sirscrapalot - Loves not depending on tourists for his income.
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