sandbar

"You can see the sandbars, concrete walls, making it very clear where you're supposed to go, and making sure people don't approach troops and engage in a dangerous situation," he said.

At the time, water from the firefighting effort had swept down the mountain creek and unnaturally breached a sandbar that separated the lagoon from the Pacific Ocean.

A festival on a sandbar brought 90 minutes of merriment to hundreds of people in the Isles of Scilly.

All of the injuries were from the ferry, which came to rest on a sandbar.

In late August, they began to notice the water retreating, leaving sandbars exposed.