Coastal ponds are usually separated from the sea by a sand dune a few metres high.
The fog has cleared as I move clumsily across a towering sand dune that rolls down into the foaming white breakers.
Unfortunately for the Prince, much of his wealth comes from his sand dune size holdings of Citigroup stock.
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The Environment Agency is taking separate action to protect sand dune flood defences which are being eroded by the wind.
The Taco Truck's bid to ace last year's race ended on the first day when the sculpture's drive train broke on a sand dune, says Weiss.
Feral pigs are also moving into southeastern New Mexico, where the federal government has been trying to boost the number of sand dune lizards and lesser prairie chickens.
Search for bargains at the Tanger Outlet Mall, or head for Jockey's Ridge State Park, home to the tallest natural sand dune on the East Coast.
Further on, the road gives way to sand, then dune mountains reminiscent of the Sahara - except these end in a wide, pristine beach.
They are moved by dreams of adult happiness, but the form of those dreams is as serendipitous as ripples in a dune of sand.
Indeed, by taking several cores, progressively further from the coastal dune, and seeing how far a sand layer extends, he can make a good guess at how powerful a passing hurricane was.
Dune: accumulations of wind-blown sand in ridges or mounds that lie landward of the beach and usually parallel to the shoreline.
Tracks in the sand showed the cows had wandered along seven miles of Cefn Sidan inside the dune line before being washed off its end.
Sand dunes helped protect the New Jersey town of Seaside Park more than its dune-less neighbor Seaside Heights when Superstorm Sandy hit last fall, said Laurie Mcgilvray, a government coastline science expert.
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