"A beach stores sand in the dunes behind it," said Bob Taylor, a coastal geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada. "When it's attacked, it draws material from the dunes for itself and for building a protective shoal or bar offshore. When it's less stressed, it takes sand and gravel from offshore and stores it back on the beach and in the dunes."

"You talk as though the damn thing were alive," said Silver Donald Cameron.

"I think of it that way," said Taylor. And so began an odyssey - [more]

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