The next year

From the summer of 2011 to the fall of 2012, when the next pictures were taken, we observed a couple of things.  The small breakwaters gradually eroded, with rocks sliding into the harbour.  Few of the rocks stood above the water at high tide.

It appeared that the beach was eroding and that its contours had been altered.  Where once it was never a problem to walk the beach at high tide, now there was almost nothing between the ocean and the woods at high tide.

During the winter of 2013, the floating dock broke free and was taken ashore.  It spent the next few months sitting atop the sewer outfall.