Sand Transport on Seabrook Island

Sand movement along South Carolina barrier islands can be a complicated topic. SIPOA monitors sand conditions on Seabrook Island each year by surveying the shoreline. Explaining how sand moves is difficult, so we created the StoryMap below that follows a grain of sand that travels along the beaches surrounding Seabrook Island. This is a light-hearted tale of Sandi, the grain of sand, that we hope will educate residents on how sand moves along our shoreline, and how our shoreline is part of a much larger coastal sand system.