Category: Coastwalking

  • Wreck Hunting

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    A wrecked ship or boat is a forlorn site. Never to put to sea again, glory days past. I have a love of searching for wrecks of the nautical variety. My favorite finds are wooden ships. These are hard to come by now, as their age has past. The bones of these old ships remind…

    The weathered spine and beams of a wooden sailing ship poke up from the sand on a rocky beach.
  • Coast Walking

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    Higgins Beach, Scarborough, Maine, USA ©lifeasjack.com All rights reserved. When I was a lad, you walked along the shore to explore. To build sand castles with deep moats, gleeful to watch their slow destruction by the unstoppable forces of the incoming tides. You discovered the flotsam and jetsam delivered by the salty waves upon the…

    A derelict kayak is half buried in beach sand, abandoned. In the foreground is a tattered life vest, crusted with sand.