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"This sand is from the ocean side of the barrier island at Emerald Isle,
North Carolina. It's south of Cape Lookout at the south end of the Outer
Banks. The sand looks pretty much the same on the bay side and on the
mainland. . . Indeed, the eastern third of NC is very sandy as it's been
repeatedly flooded for the last 90 million years or so. As the sediments
have been reworked, eroded and redeposited for all that time, the beach
is fine and white. The sandy soil extends far inland, through terrain we
call the "sandhills." Pine forests abound, as does agricultural land,
tobacco, and soybeans." J. Rose |
