#Seawall Beach

[richwall101]

Severn Beach (Bristol)

View across the seawall walkway and cycle path towards Avonmouth along the banks of the River Severn & Bristol Channel

This image taken by Bristol photographer Martin Hewer 2024

[druidofsuburbs]

Staring out over the water. What could they be waiting for?

[rabbitcruiser]

Inbetween

What do you think about my pic?  

[lezbeach]

[suxxesphoto]

Storm Darragh Newhaven Lighthouse

Capturing Storm Darragh at Sunrise: A Morning at Newhaven Lighthouse December 2024 was marked by a series of storms, and following Storm Bert, Storm Darragh was next in line. According to weather apps, there was a promising chance of a perfectly aligned sunrise behind Newhaven Lighthouse, with breaks in the clouds creating ideal photographic conditions. I decided to take the opportunity to…

[rob604designs]

"A-maz-ing Laughter" / The Laughing Men, Vancouver BC A-maz-ing Laughter (2009) by Yue Minjun is a sculpture located at the southern corner of Denman and Davie Street, right above the beach in English bay.

-Rob604

[billa-billa007]

The Galveston Seawall District is a bustling neighborhood located along the seawall that stretches along the Gulf of Mexico in Galveston, Texas. The seawall was built in response to the devastating hurricane that struck Galveston in 1900, and it has since become a popular attraction for both tourists and locals.

[itsme-desss]

[mapsoffun]

I found a couple of new ghost signs that the storms revealed, with this America one fascinating me the most. Can anyone else make out what it says underneath?

(OK, the Plaza Resort sign is not a ghost sign, but the resort is closed for all of 2023 for extensive repairs and renovations.)

[counterintuitivecomics]

ROCKS RoCKS ROCkS i love to draw the rocks!

[ID: My hand holding a graph paper sketchbook with a brushpen drawing of rocks at low tide, above the actual rocks themselves. They're covered in thready chartreuse algae, which I suggest in black ink with scribbly textures and hatching. I've also drawn the sea water bubbling and rippling around the rocks, and suggested bladderwrack seaweed dumpling the water as it clings to submerged rocks.]

[ID: Me holding up another page in my sketchbook at the same rocky Eastern Turtle Island beach. I drew it sitting between the boulders of the hurricane barrier, and the foreground focuses on their texture and bulk extending all the way to the pebbly waterline. I suggested the horizon with just a few lines for the bay and seawall. The real ones line up almost exactly behind the sketch.]

[ID: 2 photos of the seaweed rocks in the water and the sweeping rocky beach without my sketchbook in the way. It's a sunny, slightly hazy afternoon in August, 2024 and no humans are around.]

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

On September 15, 1950, 1st Lt. Baldomero Lopez, is photographed leading his men of 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, over the seawall on the northern side of Red Beach, as the second assault wave lands at Incheon, Korea.

Lt. Lopez would be killed in action within a few minutes after this photo was taken. He threw himself on top of a hand grenade to shield his men from the blast. He would posthumously receive the Medal of Honor for his selfless act of heroism.

[deadpresidents]

Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. -- the eldest son of the 26th President of the United States -- was the only Allied general to land on the beaches of Normandy with the first wave of soldiers during the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944.

Crippled by arthritis, hobbled by old combat wounds from the First World War, and forced to use a cane as he landed on Utah Beach with the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division on D-Day, General Roosevelt was the oldest man to take part in the opening stage of the invasion. He had made three requests to personally lead the assault on Utah Beach before finally being given command despite concerns about his health. During the confusion and chaos of the largest seaborne assault in human history, Roosevelt realized that tidal currents had carried nearly two dozen of the initial landing craft to the wrong location and was said to have announced, "We'll start the war from right here!"

For his actions on D-Day, General Roosevelt would be awarded the country's highest military decoration, the Congressional Medal of Honor, on September 21, 1944:

For gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty of 6 June 1944, in France. After two verbal requests to accompany the leading assault elements in the Normandy invasion had been denied, Brig. Gen. Roosevelt's written request for this mission was approved and he landed with the first wave of the forces assaulting the enemy-held beaches. He repeatedly led groups from the beach, over the seawall and established them inland. His valor, courage, and presence in the very front of the attack and his complete unconcern at being under heavy fire inspired the troops to heights of enthusiasm and self-sacrifice. Although the enemy had the beach under constant direct fire, Brig. Gen. Roosevelt moved from one locality to another, rallying men around him, directed and personally led them against the enemy. Under his seasoned, precise, calm, and unfaltering leadership, assault troops reduced beach strong points and rapidly moved inland with minimum casualties. He thus contributed substantially to the successful establishment of the beachhead in France.

However, the Medal of Honor would be awarded to Theodore Roosevelt Jr. posthumously. On July 12, 1944, thirty-six days after landing in Normandy on D-Day, General Roosevelt died in his sleep at the age of 56 after suffering a heart attack. In a letter to his wife, General George S. Patton would write, "Teddy R[oosevelt] died in his sleep last night. He had made three landings with the leading wave -- such is fate...He was one of the bravest men I ever knew." General Patton would join General Omar Bradley and numerous other generals as honorary pallbearers at Roosevelt's funeral. Roosevelt was buried at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial along with thousands of his fellow American soldiers who died in Europe during World War II. He is buried next to his youngest brother, Quentin Roosevelt, who was killed in action in 1918 after being shot down over France during World War I.

[druidofsuburbs]

In the shadow of the jetty seawall

[rabbitcruiser]

Vancouver Seawall (No. 4)

The seawall in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is a stone wall that was constructed around the perimeter of Stanley Park to prevent erosion of the park's foreshore. Colloquially, the term also denotes the pedestrian, bicycle, and rollerblading pathway on the seawall, one which has been extended far outside the boundaries of Stanley Park and which has become one of the most-used features of the park by both locals and tourists. James "Jimmy" Cunningham, a master mason, dedicated his life to the construction of the seawall from 1931 until his retirement. Even after he retired, Cunningham continued to return to monitor the wall's progress, until his death at 85. While the whole path is not built upon the seawall, the total distance from CRAB park, around Stanley Park and False Creek to Spanish Banks is about 30 kilometres (19 mi).

Despite perennial conflicts between pedestrians, cyclists, and inline skaters, park users consider the seawall to be the most important feature of Stanley Park and it is the most used feature within the park.

Source: Wikipedia

[drdemonprince]

I am so seawall pilled. Fuck the beach. At the seawall there is no sand to dirty all your belongings, no loud crowds, no Hollywood avenue preening, no lifeguards telling you not to swim too far. You can go out deep and just drift on the waves, and the motor boats and jet skis can get freakily close. I'm not as strong a swimmer as I once had been, but I feel comfortable out there, and I want to get stronger at swimming with my new, less buoyant body.

I think the era of pisces is finally upon me. The era of aries brought me my aspirations and the era of aquarius brought me distance. Let's get murky and emotional and intuitive and deep.

Intending to swim out here as often as I can. And to visit the magic hedge nearby a lot in all seasons. I feel like I actually have a home now. An area to relax in, a neighborhood to be committed to enough to study it close.

The past 18 years I have been holding my breath. I never settled in to anything. Last night I spent three hours roaming the magic hedge, a relatively tiny park, watching animals and photographing flowers. I felt like I was playing pokemon go. I never have been able to calm down and enjoy touching grass. And then I did.

I used to write and post and comment and fight so much, and say so much, trying to make myself knowable. I kind of want to be creepy and have dark depths and be silent enough to be misunderstood. I know I know, yet here I am, posting, and from the sea wall no less. I haven't even waited to get home. But on this blog in the early days I got to be lonely and artistic. I was whispering what I felt through a crack in the wall. I want to get back to creating in that way again, to write stories and little sensitive reflections and have it go nowhere but feel that it actually revealed something I was trying to say, but unable to clearly. It was art, not saleable prescriptive nonfiction. I want that spirit to come back and move me but I have to create a silence for it first. It doesn't even have to be good art, it should just have some anguish and a dreaminess to it. I just need so much of the everything all around me to stop. And I've gotta be the one to stop it, and silence it.

[ancientprettythings]

Standing on an ancient beach.

Boathouses, seawall, and a small bird - not eyeing cherries but insects instead :)

Herculaneum.