Padre Island National Seashore, Mile 50

Low tide, Padre Island National Seashore, 50 miles south of the end of pavement on the four-wheel drive only beach. It doesn’t take but a few days after the high tides are over and the erosion scars begin to heal. Here, soft sand on the top of the dune is flowing down, piling up on little ledges and creating a sand scree slope at the bottom. The clump of grass at the bottom of the erosion cut (middle screen) has calved off the top of the dune, it didn’t grow there.