backshore

The backshore is always above the highest water level point.

The dunes are located at the top of the backshore.

"No one saw any reason for building on the backshore; people wanted to be closer to the ferry."

The berm is also found here which marks the boundary between the foreshore and backshore.

During strong storms high waves and wind can deliver and erode sediment from the backshore.

The barrier island body itself separates the shoreface from the backshore and lagoon/tidal flat area.

The backshore at Kamilo contains such vegetation as naupaka, milo, and ironwood.

As the coastline becomes eroded the hapua have been 'rolling back' by eroding the backshore to move landwards.

"Nearshore" is most commonly defined as the backshore, intertidal and shallow subtidal areas of shoreline.

The backshore area of a beach extending from the limit of high water foam lines to dunes or extreme inland limit of the beach.

But those same winds that whip the island serve as a backshore snow removal service, sweeping it off Seashore Avenue and creating sculpted drifts leeward of the roadway.

Soft engineering techniques (e.g. sand nourishments), building with natural processes and relying on natural elements such as sands, dunes and vegetation to prevent erosive forces from reaching the backshore.

Although the bridge was replaced the following year, any traveler who crossed it still needed to traverse several miles over sand routes, which, together with the backshore route, was occasionally washed out by storms.

Sediment removed from the backshore is predominantly moved offshore rather than along shore as only large southerly storm waves and their subsequent swash, which usually flow perpendicular to the beach are able to reach this area (Kirk, 1967).

Prior to the construction of the paved road behind the dunes running the length of the backshore, the beach was primarily used as a path to and from George Island which is part of the LaHave Islands.

Ms. Lynch said that most outsiders listen in disbelief when she tells them how much she also enjoys the winters here on a Maine island where the cold winds that buffet the backshore blow across the open Atlantic all the way from Europe.

Local legend has it that Longfellow was inspired to compose "The Wreck of the Hesperus" after seeing the wreck of the schooner Helen Eliza, which sank off Peaks's backshore in 1869 when "the cruel rocks . . . gored" her.

Until the late 19th century, there was not a single road leading in or out of Provincetown - the only land route connecting Provincetown to points beyond was along a thin stretch of beach along the shore to the north (locally called the "backshore").

Because the backshore is often considerably flatter in appearance than the foreshore, which slopes clearly down towards the sea, it is also often referred to as a beach platform, which is why this part of the shore can be considered in practice to be the actual beach.