This blog was intended to capture my sea shore finds, mainly an eccletic mix of things like hag stones, sea glass, fishing net, rope and drift wood. All things that I intend making stuff from at some point. I also always pick up discarded fishing line, hooks and balloons that I find and dump them in the nearest bin. However today something happened that has shifted the direction of my display of natural sea shore finds. This afternoon we went to one of my favourite beaches at Bawdsey. This is probably the bit of Suffolk shoreline that I know best of all, having spent much of my childhood there as my grandparents (and many other relatives) lived in the small village of Bawdsey. Nigel and I with Timmy our Bedlington went walking there in the rain today. We hadn't been on the beach long when I found a Smurf washed up on the tide line:
A hundred metres later, we found a second one:
Then a bit further along a third:
All three looked like they had been in the sea for some time and I don't think that they were
McJunk Smurfs. I had a fantasy about a container full of Smurfs falling off the back of a ship somewhere, but a Google search failed to confirm this. However I have discovered that there was one episode of the Smurfs called "Smurfs at sea" - maybe these three characters had escaped.
I did of course pick up some of my usual finds, but these are no where near as exciting as the Smurfs!
