Beachcombing!

Well, perhaps not, though it is on the beach.  It is from old stuff from the Pier, where it is being rebuilt after a fire.  See http://hastingspeerlesspier.blogspot.co.uk/  for lots of information

We have two beaches!

And one is mostly sand, the other one is rocks and sand, then sand, then along by the beach huts it is pebbles, and then sand.  I’ll try to get some photos later.

That’s funny!

Our pebbles come first, then the sand, and mostly only at low tide.  How about you Sandy?

I like mine better–and it is the Greek colours

(Alright, I did play around with it a bit!  But it was on the sand, above the pebbles, on our beach.)

 

Sand art

Mermaid’s jewellery at low tide.

You think that’s spooky!

I have just been reading Falconer’s Lure too!!!!!!  We have to read H is for Hawk for school, and I thought, well, I know lots of it from Falconer’s Lure, and I was checking something, and just started reading it again.
Do you think maybe Alex should read it too?  JIC?  Alex, you can buy it from, no you can’t, I just checked, and http://www.ggbp.co.uk/ don’t seem to have it any more, then I checked Amazon, and you definitely can’t afford their prices! Sorry.  Anyway, it probably doesn't mean anything.

A funny thing happened ……

And I am glad we are back up, so to speak.  Anyway, I was reading Falconer’s Lure (Sandy will know what I mean, even if you don’t Alex!) and Peter said:

“I read an absolutely terrifying book once about the moon being pushed out of its proper path and crashing into the earth.  I s’pose it could happen!”

Isn’t that a bit spooky?

Not exactly beachcombing–but what a find!

A spate of shipwrecks recently found near a group of Greek islands has given researchers new insights into how trade routes and sailing technology evolved in the Eastern Mediterranean. And with more exploration planned, additional discoveries are still likely.

The find is remarkable both for the sheer number of wrecks in the small area and the range of time periods the vessels came from.

The earliest wreck dates to the Archaic Period (700-480 B.C.), while the most recent is from the Late Medieval Period (16th century A.D.). Ships from the Classical Period (480-323 B.C.) and the Hellenistic Period (323-31 B.C.) were also found, though a majority—12 of the 22—sailed and sank at some point during the Late Roman Period (300-600 A.D.)