Runkerry ASSI is a beach system of international importance demonstrating beach states from dissipative to reflective.
A wide range of rhythmic morphological features are present including beach cusps, rip current channels, longshore rip feeder channels, giant cusps and migratory transverse and crescentic nearshore bars.
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