Down on the beach for two days in a row: a lower line of small bay ridges forming smaller bays within the larger bay of Leighton Beach to Cables Station. The tide is morning low, with little variation with the mid-sky moon. The angle of the slope from flat sand down to the water is pretty gradual, 30 degrees or less, and there is a hint of bay-ridge remnants from a formerly higher tide further up the slope. Around mid bay, between the lower ridges, I notice a couple of cliff faces forming—places where the long, slow, back-and-forth of gradual tide—stormless, swell-less—leans into a kind of cliff-barrier where the water, due to what it has created in the sand, is unable to rise any higher; a cliff place where water starts to cut horizontally into the sand, rather than wash over and flatten it out, as it does further north.