We were in Bluffton, South Carolina playing on a sandbar that emerges only at low tide.

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In another ten minutes her islands, and the entire sandbar, would be gone.

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Chris Myers and his teenage son were swimming toward a sandbar 400 to 500 yards off Ballston Beach, Massachusetts.

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But they are us possibly some of the most important parts and leaving them back on the sandbar diminishes who we are.

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And we were camped on a little sandbar, made a rain gauge, and the river was rising at the rate of one inch every 20 minutes, if you can believe that.

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We are on a bluff above a sandbar.

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The food is very good, and the staff makes mealtime magic of its own, staging beach barbecues and, if the tide is low at dusk, drinks and dinner on a long, scorpion-tail sandbar way out in Copperfield Bay.

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The sun was barely up we had woken early to watch the sandbar disappear as the tide rose and now my wife Eleanor and I were relaxing in the warm salty water, eating juicy South Carolina peaches, soaking in the moment, enjoying our children and each other.

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