The useful question on any coastal path is why the route exists at all, because walking was rarely the reason. Somebody needed to get along this coast, and the path…
The defining property is that nothing here is constant. Salinity at any given point changes twice a day and again with the seasons, and every organism and process in an…
The design problem is not producing light. It is producing light that carries a specific identifiable message to somebody several miles away who needs to know exactly which coast they…
The useful question at any causeway is what it is crossing, because the answer determines whether it is always there, sometimes there, or being maintained against something actively trying to…
Everything below follows from the same arrangement: water on three sides or more, and one narrow way in by land. Here are seventeen things that produces.
1. The Spit That…
Coastlines are not eroded evenly. The sea attacks everything and removes softer material faster, which is why almost every coast is a sequence of projections and indentations rather than a…