It is amazing how the beach changes on a daily basis.  For a few days, we have had a cool, dry breeze which has made the island a delightful place to be.  However, when you combine that wind with full moon high tides, some erosion is bound to occur.  Here are some photos of the beach yesterday at high tide, around 10:00 am.

Although most of the dunes have been washed away in the last two years, there are a few early residents and visitors who remember the front beach being right where it is now in the early 1990’s.  Certainly, vast amounts of sand have accreted this summer where the sandbar has attached to the island, and most of the erosion is in the middle of the island, which is what the College of Charleston’s geomorphology crew had predicted.  When you look north at Osprey, enough sand has built up on the beach to enable you to see over the dune that separates the front beach from Lake Timicau, and the geology marker is still hanging in there.

Water is an incredible force– we could even see the biggest trees on the beach moving in the surf.