"It's a small inlet with a mangrove swamp.
Porth Wen is a wide inlet with several accessible beach areas.
Then suddenly, inevitably, the water rose, swallowing the barrier of rocks, rushing into the inlet with a flinty roar.
There's a wonderful inlet with a small safe beach for children and a rocky peninsula with increasingly high ledges for the brave to jump from.
"We were just setting up everything," said Zeeshan Akbar, 12, another cousin who went to the beach on Rockaway Inlet with the girls yesterday.
It sits on a sheltered inlet with direct access to the ocean, and they launch their kayaks from a shared dock.
In South Carolina, Archer Huntington is said to have designed Atalaya, his 55-room winter home at Murrells Inlet, with oral instructions -- but no architectural plans.
The larger, 250-foot-wide Fort Hatteras commanded the western inlet with about a dozen smoothbore guns, none capable of firing long distances.
Mr. Kurth's "Orient Point" is a cozy scene of three houses on an inlet with a dock, sailboat and rowboat, all reflected in the calm water.
Earlier Sunday, park officials had closed off the paved walkway and a series of interlocking gates that led to viewing stations at Thunder Hole, an inlet with a submerged cave that is known to produce booming, plumelike waves.
It's disconcerting to discover the shabby chic hotel, the seaside bar and local shop were sets, now fully dismantled; but even stripped back, this horseshoe inlet with its tiny fort and glinting shore is undoubtedly special.
