one beach five ways

every beach is different. our beach on the mediterranean looks like this. it looks nothing like the north shore of lake superior, or the gulf coast of florida, or the pacific beaches of northern california, nor the windswept beaches of brittany.  those aren’t the only beaches i’ve seen in my life, but they are the ones i have spent enough time with to claim a little piece of them for myself. along “our” beach, just outside of sète, you will not find kelp like california. nor sand dollars like florida. i have found striped rocks and hermit crab shells, and sand dollars, and agates, and sea glass, and coral on beaches. but on none, not one, of all my beaches have i ever found terracotta roof tiles tumbled into ‘rocks.’

beach collections from the plage de la baleine, in sète, france