September 4, 2017
The Shelly Seashore
In Sisters at the Seashore, the Funny Sisters, Tina, Becky, Kim, Ellen, and Jill visit the seashore with Mom and Daddy.
Like the Funny Sisters’ home, this seashore is actually a real place!
As a family, we end up meeting our family at this specific beach because it’s closer to most of them. It isn’t the girls’ favorite beach because of the tiny broken shells that replace sand as the shoreline. They have a special nickname for it: “the shelly beach.”
Whenever we go there, these shells get everywhere! They get stuck in between toes, in bathing suits, and I think they even use the salt as a glue to attach themselves to human bodies. Oh, there’s a beautiful stretch of pretty white sand up to the waterline, but past that are tiny shell fragments that carpet the beach even out into the water. One must carefully step so as not to cut the bottom of one’s feet. The good news is that, just like a carpet, the shell blanket is not very deep. Usually, someone has already shuffled their feet through the shells like a bulldozer to make a thin shell-free sandy path into the water. We look diligently for these tiny safe-foot-paths. If we can’t spy one, we make one.
The water here is slightly greenish and usually clear enough to see various sea life in the shallows. Often as the tide changes the younger girls will dig for various mollusks and crabs. These tiny creatures are usually less than a quarter of an inch in length!
Once, though, we saw a giant conch!
Rebeccah loves to collect very small complete shells; these you have to uncover in the sand as the water grounds them to fragments quickly.
This is the beach that the Funny Sisters visit. We have many fun cousin-time days here! Because of the unique properties that make this one of my favorite beaches to play at, North Vilano Beach at the walkover has become “the beach” for the Five Alive series!
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~Nancy Tart