The Shoreline

In an earlier blog I wrote about the beach re-healing after a large storm. I described how the beach was pounded by giant waves that came in with the storm and how these waves flattened and widened the beach. Over the following weeks the beach was slowly re-shaped by the waves to it's 'regular' shape a contoured beach with a steep drop-off. Not long after the first storm, we were hit by another large storm, which repeated the process. Now that I have spent some time here I have seen the beach change and re-change; I watch the beach sands get washed out by giant waves; and then they are re-deposited by smaller waves. I realize that the beach is in a dynamic stability, with a wide range of variability, which simply means, the beach is in constant change and the change is very great. The shore never looks the same, the dunes come and go, washed away here by waves, and deposited somewhere else by other same waves; change from one day to the next.