Goodbye January, Hello February! The coast has been battered in the last week by storms, and it isn't even a full moon. This photo is of the OMP stairway at the far end of Strandway near the river - you can see the bottom step is a different color, as it has been covered with sand up until recently. You can also see the high tide mark there, right up against the snow fence and stairwell. That line of shells and seaweed is officially known as the "strandline" or the "strandway", thus the name of the street... just a little tidbit I learned while chaperoning a school field trip to a local beach one fall to do environmental studies...Yesterday was sunny and bright (if not particularly warm) and we walked along the shore past the Pleasant Road Beach and down as far as we could before the ocean made it impassable. It's not just our stretch of beach that has suffered the erosion, if that makes anyone feel better. The ocean is buffetting the seagrass all along the coast, the waves licking right into the dunes. Hopefully the winds and currents will shift this spring and bring some of the new sandbars back onto shore for us...
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