bigscoop
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Things are finally changing on the beach, that northeast wind slowly settling in with routine push and persuasion. Not going to be seeing too many periods of those really “flat seas” for a quite a while now.
Won't be too much longer before you'll start to see that scattering of shell appearing on the beach again, those gentle slopes into the shoreline troughs appearing a bit steeper, the current racing up and down the coast feeling a bit stronger, the swells feeling a bit heavier.
Soooo much sand everywhere, even on those outer bars, but this too is starting to change as the stronger shoreline currents and heavier swells start to go to work on them. And all of that water that's getting forced up onto the beach, well, it simply has to find its way back to the sea, so it flushes back down the beach and into those stronger shoreline currents so it can be carried away. But wait, as this creates a bit of a problem.
You see, you can't keep shoving water onto the beach while you're still trying drain excess water from the beach, if you keep doing this you'll eventually have more water on the beach then it can handle and gravity simply won't allow it. So now we have to manufacture a way a process that allows all of that beach water to overcome the force of the sea water that's still being pushed onto the beach. So mother nature decided to design a series of one-way streets to accommodate this quandary. Back to those outer bars and those maze-like openings that serve as the doors to the open sea.
All of these bars and troughs and runnels, they're really like a busy highway system of sorts, a series of exchanges and exits that permit all of this returning water to travel back into the open sea, the busier these highways are the more wear they create in the road. Soon you'll have pot holes which will turn into growing trenches until summer returns with enough sand to slowly repair all of the damage, these outbound winter express lanes typically seeing far less outbound water flow in the summer. But when these express lanes are busy in the winter the damage can be quite extensive, or should I say, “impressive.”
Thick chunks of shell, pieces of coral, corroded lead fishing weights and clumps of iron, hard bottoms consisting of black sand and clay, all of the things that you just don't run into during the summer, and of course, those denser pieces of gold will be found in these growing winter express lanes as well. Just one little view into a winter beach here on the east coast.
Won't be too much longer before you'll start to see that scattering of shell appearing on the beach again, those gentle slopes into the shoreline troughs appearing a bit steeper, the current racing up and down the coast feeling a bit stronger, the swells feeling a bit heavier.
Soooo much sand everywhere, even on those outer bars, but this too is starting to change as the stronger shoreline currents and heavier swells start to go to work on them. And all of that water that's getting forced up onto the beach, well, it simply has to find its way back to the sea, so it flushes back down the beach and into those stronger shoreline currents so it can be carried away. But wait, as this creates a bit of a problem.
You see, you can't keep shoving water onto the beach while you're still trying drain excess water from the beach, if you keep doing this you'll eventually have more water on the beach then it can handle and gravity simply won't allow it. So now we have to manufacture a way a process that allows all of that beach water to overcome the force of the sea water that's still being pushed onto the beach. So mother nature decided to design a series of one-way streets to accommodate this quandary. Back to those outer bars and those maze-like openings that serve as the doors to the open sea.
All of these bars and troughs and runnels, they're really like a busy highway system of sorts, a series of exchanges and exits that permit all of this returning water to travel back into the open sea, the busier these highways are the more wear they create in the road. Soon you'll have pot holes which will turn into growing trenches until summer returns with enough sand to slowly repair all of the damage, these outbound winter express lanes typically seeing far less outbound water flow in the summer. But when these express lanes are busy in the winter the damage can be quite extensive, or should I say, “impressive.”
Thick chunks of shell, pieces of coral, corroded lead fishing weights and clumps of iron, hard bottoms consisting of black sand and clay, all of the things that you just don't run into during the summer, and of course, those denser pieces of gold will be found in these growing winter express lanes as well. Just one little view into a winter beach here on the east coast.
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