Save all the undertakers' bills, let the mermaids flirt with me

[sovay]

I am on Cape Cod.



Specifically I am on Corporation Beach. I picked up a slipper shell and three pebbles, two white quartz, one soft grey with a water-white line through it. Later we walked through a salt marsh as the sun was setting; I saw a family catching green crabs on the end of a line baited with chicken. There have been excellent fried clams and excellent soft-serve ice cream. Everything smells like salt here. There is excellent sea.

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[tree_and_leaf]

Wonderful! I went to the sea this weekend too, though obviously I had to be back for Sunday.

[sovay]

I went to the sea this weekend too, though obviously I had to be back for Sunday.

I'm so glad you had it! Where was your sea?

[tree_and_leaf]

The North Sea, which is the most convenient coast for us, at Scarborough. There's a ruined castle (most recently ruined by the German High Seas fleet in WWI), lots of Victorian houses, a very short funicular railway, a harbour, and two bays, one of which is very much the odd old-fashioned vulgar British seaside, and the other is much more quiet. Sometimes you can see whales, but we weren't lucky this time. Lots of sea birds, though.

[sovay]

There's a ruined castle (most recently ruined by the German High Seas fleet in WWI), lots of Victorian houses, a very short funicular railway, a harbour, and two bays, one of which is very much the odd old-fashioned vulgar British seaside, and the other is much more quiet. Sometimes you can see whales, but we weren't lucky this time. Lots of sea birds, though.

That sounds lovely. (I like the image of the most recently ruined castle.) This year there were warnings about sharks on the Cape, but I did not see any.