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Geologists believe that about 10 thousand, 12 thousand years ago this area was all under ice.
From about 5 thousand to about 25 hundred years ago the lake levels dropped
and that was just enough to expose this shallow sandbar
which we now see behind us as this beautiful bay and the beach.
and we refer to this type of a landform as a 'tombolo'
and in Italian it means sandbar, in latin it means mound
but basically what it indicates is a bridge.
And here it's a sand bridge that connects 2 bodies of land that used to be seperate islands.
And now they're married together as one.
And it's the same kind of situation if you have an island that's connected to the mainland.
That is also called a tombolo.
It's the sandbar, it's the bridge.
Behind us, the beach is part of the tombolo here on Stockton Island.