Another Line of Demarcation That Has Moved in My Life Time

for most of my younger years when the Old Mill Dam was still intact (a remnant in granite is visible on the far right) the normal high tide came just above the gravel bank on the right of the foreground tree leaves but on the left side of the creek (high middle photograph)- occasionally with favorable winds and a good moon it would come just to the foot of the dam (where the flat water starts to run more like a creek) - but now the tide rises, slightly for certain, but higher by about six inches or so on a regular schedule - and in weather conditions as said above, it will rise visibly on the far side of the second easterly bridge fed my Mauldin Avenue