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Tommy’s weather-wise arm and the long-range meteorologists had been right. Thick black clouds boiled across the sky just before dawn. Dust devils swirled up and down the beach as the quickening winds tossed handfuls of sand into the air.
This particular scene was only one tiny segment of the entire movie, but it promised to be one of the most dramatic.
No one wanted to miss watching the filming. So Marty and Paddy erected several big interconnecting tents near the lower cave, while Jimbo’s team finished dismantling Set Two’s equipment and moved it to the long beach.
They were working against time and Mother Nature herself. It took every available crewman to fasten everything in place, and erase their tracks from the well-traveled beach, before rain started pelting down.
By mid-morn
