ocr: While most barrier islands are not migrat- end point of such hard stabilization. A: small ing at the moment, many are beginning to town on a long, low barrier: spit, Sea Bright narrowi croding on all sides, partly in response withi its broad stretch of beach was: a sum- to sca-level rise. Some islands of North Car- mertime resort for New Yorkers in the carly olina are melting away at a rate of two to five 20th century. But in later years it drew few feet a year. The shores of Louisiana, with its swimmers. The first seawall was built at the flat coastal profile, are rapidly fraying, in part tur ...