It's sad to see the beach go and come so much at Orient but nothing like the town of North Cove, WA, also known as Washaway Beach. For many years, the Pacific Ocean has relentlessly attacked the sandy shore, washing away beach and houses along the shore, moving the shoreline back by half a mile over the last decade, leaving water and sewer pipes sticking up in the sand where one houses stood. It doesn't have the protective reef like Orient