Don’t get too excited – I know it’s not PC, but it’s the first thing that sprang to mind.  Subject = Island.  Newer readers may well not get the reference to the vanishing island.  This is the aforementioned when we arrived here:

This is it after a surge or two about 18 months ago, Notice how the “toe” of the island has been peeled back by the force of the current.

this is it before the recent storms:

And now:

It is a dead island.