The coast lost its tiled look. Before, every small block of seabed had its own straight-sided shelf and the sea drew a thin white hexagon around each one. Waves first broke in a single line out where the water is about a meter and a half deep; since October 28 each breaker rides in as its own white roller with a foam trail thinning behind it, and calm water where nothing breaks stays clear and turquoise.
The orange patches along sea cliffs and reef edges were subsoil showing through, and most of that is grass or rock now. Some pale patches remain on the beach, and their source is still to be found.
