Now just imagine the plethora of textures and feelings at the beach: dry sand, wet sand, rocks, shells, seaweed, water, warm sand, cold sand, wind, etc. Children act "a lot like scientists when they learn through their senses," Doorley writes, and we think the beach is a perfect laboratory.
If you don't have that, you will be like a fish on the beach, drying up on the sand.
Throughout the second half of this series Victor has been confronted by two visions: one of Julie plunging to her death, the other of her at the beach, drying the head of a little boy who isn't Victor.
Widen the choices to include smooth beach glass, dried seaweed, dried sponges, shiny broken pieces of shell (look for mother of Pearl type pieces––paua/abalone shell is especially pretty).
Travelling in a "Duck" he got onto the beach with dry feet, only to be sent back into the water to drag out a mine sweeping trolley which had got stuck.
And, expanding on the "Live by It" theme, the television spots show scenes of bright days, rainy days and snowy ones, too, advising viewers, among other things, to "play by it" when they golf, "get away by it" at the beach, "stay dry by it" in the rain and "arrive by it" in the snw.
As the dodo in Alice says after an inconclusive race on the beach to dry off, "Everybody has won, and all get prizes".
Dead or dying, they wash up onto the beach and dry out in the sun.
The somewhat similar little purple sail, or sailer-Velella, is much smaller in size, & once it is left on the beach it dries quickly.
High tide @ 4 pm". Grabbing beach towels drying over various handrails around campus, they take their surfboards from a big storage room, and head out to go surfing.
So does this mean that, much like Gordon Brown's 'eco-towns,' the policy will be beached on dry land?
