People round here go to some lengths to get their vehicles onto the beach (legally a 'road'). The river loops back on itself just now so there's nowhere for most vehicles to go.

Locals dug a channel between the two streams to send the river straight out to sea.

Didn't work so some chance it…

@alanralph The river changes its course all the time at the mouth. That loop will disappear of its own accord with the next storm. Some people here though just want to be able to get their vehicles onto the beach 24/7/365. I'd rather they couldn't get on at all…

@alanralph Some of those folks feel truly entitled. One year someone took a bulldozer to someone else's private land because their usual track was cut off…