EMERALD ISLE — About 60 people participated in Hands Across the Sand, an annual event to show support for clean oceans and beaches and renewable energy sources Saturday at the Bogue Inlet Fishing Pier in Emerald Isle.“We talked with others that left early and would have participated,” Joel Dunn, one of the organizers and chairperson of the Croatan Group of the Sierra Club, said Monday. “Traffic to the pier was jammed up on Saturday, and I know that prevented some folks from making it. That’s why I rode my bike.”“We are planning for next year to do more to create better signage and more to help people know what we are doing and get it out early when people are just arriving for the day,” he added.
Still, he said he felt those who…