Water does not act alone
Rising water erodes low exposed land, but sediment accumulation can rebuild it. Vegetation slows both where it survives.
An invented estuary, 1940–2024
Tide Archive
This is not a forecast. It is a small, legible world for watching a shoreline become the record of water pressure, sediment, care, and construction. Drag through the years; tap a tile to ask what made that location change.
water exposed sediment living shore built edge
Protection moves pressure
Flood walls spare the protected tile in the short term; nearby unprotected water is pushed harder into its neighbours.
Homes change the story
Settlement seeks high stable ground, then invites a wall after enough flood years. The “safe” shore is therefore made, not found.
A deterministic fictional model, made to reveal coupled consequences rather than to simulate a real estuary. Replay always begins from the same 1940 shoreline.