Toe of the dune?

[bwirth1999]

What is considered the "toe" of the dune? In certain areas it's hard to discern where the beach ends and the dune begins... Anyone have a clarification on this?

 

[metaldetectorguy]

Good question...Around here I say where the sea grass starts is the toe to me...but that is my assumption..

 

[wildman4910]

I would stay out of any dune area with any vegetation growing on it.

A "flat dune"

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Toe of the dune

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[lookindown]

Good question...Around here I say where the sea grass starts is the toe to me...but that is my assumption..

What he said.

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

My research shows it a place after the last vegetation growth, on the dune. Also while researching it seems most localities have a rule that there be no beach raking within 25 feet of the Toe. This allows for growth. I am guessing from our point of view this would include digging?

 

[bwirth1999]

Hmm yeah, some places the growth is a bit... sporadic... most of it though is in one main line.... Just occasionally you get those one or two plants that want to blaze a trail...

 

[Marye]

Frontal Dune
The first dune located landward of the ocean beach. The N.C. Division of Coastal Management defines this dune as the first dune having sufficient vegetation, height, continuity and configuration to offer protective value. The toe of the frontal dune is the seaward extent of the frontal dune and it begins where the contour of the dune rises up from the landward extent of the ocean beach creating a distinct change in slope or elevation. Where an erosion escarpment exists on the seaward edge of a frontal dune, there will often be no visible toe of the dune and the erosion escarpment will represent the seaward extent of the frontal dune.