Meanwhile, the tower itself now forms the centerpiece of a plaza around its shoreward face. The unloading progressed slowly as "Arcturus"s boats helped move troops and supplies shoreward. The reef flat is the shoreward, flat, broadest area of the reef. Internal tides bring pulses of cold water shoreward and produce large vertical temperature differences. The shoreward end amusement arcade survived, along with one set of piles. Led by and , the first landing craft from began nosing shoreward around 0342. Its seaward Boundary is an average of offshore, and shoreward boundary the mean high tide.