On Monday, April 27, 2009, I flew with Gary McGraw and Leslie Sautter over Dewees and surrounding barrier islands at dead low tide during a very large spring tide (extra big tide).  We took photos to show the distribution of sand along the beach and inlets.  Below is a photo showing what Dewees’s beach looks like.  Leslie is a professor of coastal geology at the College of Charleston and runs Project Oceania.  She says that the sandbar now attached to the front of Dewees will spread out over the next several years.  As it does so, the Dewees beach should accrette (the opposite of erode — that is it should grow).