seaward

A push from the land side, such as heavy rainfall or high river flows, moves the balance point seaward.

Though California generally owns the beach seaward from the mean high tide line, private owners can still claim beach property.

Antarctic ice shelves are the seaward extension of the world’s largest army of glaciers, and provide a stabilizing function.

The little cottage is safer, as it happens, than the architectural marvels perched on the rocky seaward verges of Big Sur, one of which took a 50-foot wave straight through its plate glass window.

The park features unusual sandstone rocks, tidepools, guided mountain biking, fishing and camping on seaward beauty.