The Beach Scene

At work today (Yes, I still work), the place seemed empty with so many folk slacking off, on holiday in X, Y and Z. 

Fine, suits me.

So, here's a nice beach scene to make you think of holidays, sand fleas, and noisy Magyars shouting at each other.

No idea where this is, but it's probably not Iceland.

Bonus - Lose Yourself
 

I'm Back - At The Beach

 

Yes. I'm back posting slides. Again.

I have been deficient in the past month, due to a crisis on my home planet, which is now sorted...and because.... fatigue.

So, let's welcome in August with an exciting new Holiday Beach Visit slide.

I'm guessing early 1970's but ....wherever.

Bonus - 

Phew! What a Scorcher!

 

The traditional British Tabloid headline staple.

Tho' as today is a Bank Holiday, the other staple "Bank Holiday Washout" seems less appropriate. Britain has had it's hottest day in May EVER,

So, today's slide is sort of appropriate. It's been a while since the last School Goes Abroad For Easter Holiday image, and this is from the 1973 Ibiza box. Teenagers lazing on  beach, saving energy for fumblings in the evening.

Bonus - Utterly Pointless

Sky, Sea, Bloke, Sand, Log

 

The only remotely interesting thing about this slide is that the bloke's name is Gaylord.

Maybe.

Bonus - 

Must be a Water Spaniel

 

OK, technically, it isn't.

The English Water Spaniel died out in the 1920s-ish.

But that apparent small sand island is a doggo of some sort. The slide says "udo swimming at Constantine Bay, 1986", so ... yeah.

Bonus - 

Fun on the Beach - Too

 

So, it wasn't a Sand Castle yesterday, it's a Sand Crab.

Yeah.

Bonus - 

Fun on the Beach

 

While the days are getting longer, it doe seem like summer is still along time off.

So, lets feed those pangs of nostalgia with a trip back in time to a sunny beach. It looks like some sort of Sandcastle competition, but ... it doesn't look like a castle to me.

Bonus - 

Boxing Day - Australian Style

 While most of our readership is in the norther hemisphere, let's not forget the readership in Australia, New Zealand etc, who have to forego the joys of snow, log fires and cold.

Here we have Branda Schlott, a trainee sewage farm operator, enjoying her Boxing Day on the beach just outside Woolongawulla.  You look marvelous, honey.

Bonus - On this date, in 1943, the German battleship Scharnhorst was sunk.

Beachcombing

 

On the last Saturday in September (for this year at least), it seems suitably nostalgic to hark back to days of yore, when the family would scour the sea shore for flotsam, jetsam and mislaid bundle of cocaine, floating on-shore from narco-subs.

I think that the location is Weston-Super-Mare, but I could (probably) be wrong.

Bonus - I'm glad to see that I missed the Rapture a few days ago. Doomsday Scoreboard

The Blurred Curse

 

Interesting and inexplicable phenomenon.

On the beach at the sunny resort o Isle of Whithorn, it is impossible to take a in-focus picture, As you can see.

No-one has every explain how or why....it just is.

Bonus - Do You Need Tom Confess Anything?

Saturday at the Beach

 

Today, in an odd spare half hour, I scanned in another bunch of slides. Crazy, I know.

They were from a box, date stamped as 2009...yikes... but these ones had very limited info, but were the classic vintage cardboard Kodachrome slides. What little was written on them dated the slides to 949-1952.

And this was one of them.  No info, sorry, but I'm guessing USA.

Bonus - 

Beryl Hits The Beach

 Another images from the Beryl Blood collection (as seen of TV !), here we have the presumptive Beryl Blood hitting the beaches of Italy in the sixties (I guess)

Some rather bold fashion choices there, notably the raffia work waste paper bin repurposed as a sun hat.

Bonus - FessHole - Your ideal place to anonymously confess what's on your soul.

Saturday on the Shingle

 

I was going to tidy up this slide, and sort out the faded / low-contrast look to it.

But, I prefer it this way. Proper Retro Postcard look.

Bonus - Also today, I am making Apple Curd.

Bonus 2 - 

Sports Casual on the Beach

 

Interesting fashion choice for surfing at the beach.

Bonus - Nah. I'm too hot.

A quiet beach...

 

I didn't know what to post today, but randomly perusing the slide box, this one popped up.

And I thought "Today's the anniversary of D-Day." 81  years since Operation Overlord.

I've no idea where the slide depicts, and it's 99% certain it's not Normandy.  But it seemed appropriate.

Bonus - 

The Power of the Sea.

 

I was going to entitle this American Sea Power.... but that might have attracted the US Navy nutters.

Bonus - Yes, more

Decisions

Explained

Bonus 2 -

Beachwear, Hats, Sunglasses ... and Maracas

 

What more could I say?

One For The Ladies

 

This is Jeffery. 

He's 37 years old, divorced, and looking someone who's make him feel special.

WLTM someone in the Wilmington Area, ideally living in 1963.

Big Norks would be an advantage.

Bonus - I've just invented a new word. Plagiarism. 

Bonus 2 - 

Beach-Lounging Time

 

As promised, time to move on from the Christmas / New Year / Winter slides.

So, here's someone sunbathing on a beach.

The slide has no info on the location, but that appears to be TARPON SPRINGS FLORIDA: SPONGE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. The remains of the collapsed Battery Bigelow

Bonus -

It's Scuba Monday

 I'm having a day off from work, and who knows, I might head off for a bit of Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus fun later.

Bonus - The Revillos. The only band who could make The B-52s seem like a DeathMetal band.