On the cliffs surrounding Lake Buchanan in Central Texas, a white ring extends some 13 feet above the shoreline, marking where the water reaches when the lake is full.
G.K. Gilbert thought that the Bonneville shoreline marked the highest elevation Lake Bonneville reached, limited by the elevation of the overflow point on the basin divide, and that the lake did not spill across the divide for a prolonged period prior to the Bonneville flood.
Its northeastern shoreline is marked by the large delta of the St. Clair River, with seven channels.
Last year's event at the Shoreline Amphitheatre marked the first time Google held its biggest developer event outdoors and in its own backyard.
We waded untouched shorelines and marked fish tailing above sand and marl, grinding on minnows, on little shrimp and crabs, matching flies to these, throwing hooks toward mouths.
They are ringed by coral reefs and shallow lagoons except where the shorelines are marked by cliffs formed by lava flows.
Even on the Big Island of Hawaii, the vast sweep of upcountry open ranch land of Kohala and densely forested valleys along the Hamakua Coast soon give way to shorelines that mark land's end.
Barriers and warning signs mark the shoreline, where the ancient hotels emerge from the water.
For now, as I trace the footprints on the shoreline of my past, the marks of those who have come and suffered before, it is clear that I and hundreds of thousands of Indigenous people – to take up Certeau's Crusoe analogy – have emerged from the storm, washed up on our own uncharted island of black success.
I swim parallel to the beach, and Wallow follows along in the crab sled, marking up the shoreline that we've covered on our map.
