sandbar

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

Tens of thousands used to watch racers navigate curves and narrow passages, dodging logs and sandbars.

The two-year-old female calf had been stuck in the tidal lagoon after her pregnant mother was stranded and later died on a sandbar.

Bar push is caused when deposition on the inside of a bend forms a sandbar, which pushes the curve outward.

The original Terminal Island had been nothing more than a glorified sandbar known as Rattlesnake Island, named for the animals that washed into the harbor during heavy rains.