Topsail really needs groins built. Groins (or groynes) are structures that extend from the shore into the ocean. They keep putting sand on the dunes (aka dune push), but the ocean just washes the new sand away. It's frustrating as property owner on this beach.
Clearly it's high tide. Tons...literally...of sand was taken away. It will make sandbars just offshore and hopefully attach back to the beach...one day.
Who builds an asphalt highway on a beautiful beach? (Jekyll Island, GA is another bad example of this -- turtles and other animals that the road cuts through their habitat get hit by cars. Humans are not the most intelligent species as it turns out.) Who with any sense, builds houses on the back dune area that is to catch the brunt of storms?
