In a much less distant past, as a nostalgic refugee of farm life and the fishing village, my mother took her children camping in the summers at Hubbard's Beach, where the primordial jellyfish baked on the sand. My brother and I each told embarrassing stories about the other to the other children at the camp site, or we pretended not to know each other, or we ran together and chased crabs in the tidal pools and climbed the rocks. It was there, in the summer before the fourth grade that I lost myself to a small girl in the sharp grass superstructure of the soft white sand dunes.



5. Foreshore Protection
Sea Walls, Dikes and Bulkheads are constructed along the shore line to prevent encroachment of the sea by direct wave action, and as in the case of breakwaters, may consist of looser rubble mounds or heaps of masonry wall work, usually, however, supplemented with timber, steel, or reinforced concrete sheet piling driven into the beach and strengthened by wales, guide and brace piles, fascines and mattress work held in place by piles and loaded with rock. The character of massiveness depends on the location and wave forces the work will be subject to.