Affects of hurricane Matthew

Ernie and I headed over to a favorite beach walk on Sunset Beach/Bird Island Nature Reserve. We thought we'd see some dune erosion from Matthew but found it was much worse than anticipated.

 The whole front row of dunes are practically gone, the grassed over back row of dunes are fully intact, foreground are eroded dunes with grass hillocks flat on the beach instead of the dunes. eek.

Dune completely cut-away and eroded.

In the last 2 years, we've never looked through the dunes to the back woods and low-country.
Now this year, you can. Grassy hillocks in the foreground where a row of dunes used to stand.

End of day Sunset Beach/Bird Island walk looking toward Little River Inlet.  We might be in North Carolina here, or it might be South Carolina. The border is here somewhere not well marked.