:usaflag: Reading a Beach :detecting:

[Cupajo]

This is the fence last fall before our first strong winter storm.

Waves took out a post during a moderate storm before the later big blow we had.

The weed line is where the water got to and during the later storm the water was perhaps thirty feet higher up on the sand than this.

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The posts were set in concrete two feet in the ground and most were ripped out of the ground by the first big Nor Easter we got.

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The rest have been toppled by later storms as seen in the above pictures.

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Here is what the posts look like now.

I wonder if these folks will ever learn!

Waves have toppled the fence in all its configurations several times.

CJ

 

[kered]

Some people have more money than sense to keep putting them up again, but i think they will tire before the sea does, one thing i learned from 35 years at sea is respect and you have to work with it not against, those that don't find out the hard way and eventually lose.

 

[Cupajo]

A little better look at the sluiceway covered with sand (looking east).

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And with almost no sand for contrast.

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The Little Beach Breakwater free of sand and sporting a cut bank (kooking west).

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The same view after sand has washed out and the cut has disappeared.

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Looking east again, the beach with cut bank.

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And with long gradual slope to water.

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The contrasts are more obvious when the pictures are closer together!

In a period of little more than 24 hours of Nor Easter wind and waves this huge amount of sand was moved from high on the beach to several yards out onto the water creating a new low tide line and covering up a lot of the "rock bottom" where I had hoped to hunt under as much as a couple of feet of sand or more!!

CJ

PS This is my last reading a beach entry in this string! I hope you readers don't think I've been beating a dead horse!!