Flotsam and Jetsam
I love the rocks, sand and seaweed of the beach, but also find the brightly coloured things that wash up rather interesting - especially the contrast in colour, surface and form between the man-made and the natural.
Monmouth Beach, to the west of Lyme Regis, is my favourite haunt. Here, currents and tides conspire to wash up large quantities of stuff, especially during winter storms.
Every spring there is a communal Beach Clean and all the plastic and metal is taken away, but in a few weeks, it starts sidling back again for my perusal.
Why flotsam and jetsam? In legal terms, one is floating wreckage in the sea, the other is stuff thrown (jettisoned) from boats, but the term has now come to mean most strandline rubbish.
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