Coastal erosion has occurred in dozens of places along the Northwest Coast but nowhere as severe as on Oregon’s Tillamook Spit. Here, much of the town of Bayocean fell into the sea one house at a time and the ocean tore down a 140-foot high dune as well as a three story hotel on top of it. An angry sea took over twenty years to do this, then in November 1952, giant breakers collapsed the spit leaving only the far end, Kincheloe Point, as an island. Dr. John Potter Dobbins, a scientist and grandson of T. B. Potter, the developer of Bayocean, wrote:

"Authors Bert and Margie Webber have been visiting, hiking, beachcombing and researching about Bayocean for over 17 years [as of 1989]. They have talked with dozens who once lived or vacationed there. Their earlier books about Bayocean, and other eroding areas along the Northwest Coast, are eclipsed by the scope of the present work."

Today one can drive to Bayocean on a U. S. Army Corps of Engineers-built breakwater to a public parking lot. Just being there, knowing of the past, may give some an eerie feeling. But this does not stop beachcombers, and fishermen, or the horsy set who ride their animals there on weekends where once there was a lively community.

This documentary also presents Siletz Spit, commonly called "Salishan Spit" — itself already breached at least twice by the ocean; Nestucca Spit; Cape Lookout State Park; Newport and Jump-Off Joe; the Southern Oregon Coast ’s washout near Ophir Safety Rest Area and at the parking lot at base of north jetty on the Coquille River near Bandon. Includes Washington’s infamous "Wash-away" Beach, on the present remains of once beautiful but totally destructed Cape Shoalwater along with its lighthouses.