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The beach was a stony spit clogged with low-tide sea wrack, but it was beautiful to me, more beautiful than any champagne-white tourist beach back home.

May's writing, in this first of a trilogy, is pitch-perfect — so vivid that you can practically hear the gulls' screeches and smell the sea wrack on the shore.

They are made of iodine and sea wrack.

There's sea wrack for kelp, and every other con-vanience any one can require; and a poorer set of devils than ye 'll see when we get down there, there's nowhere to be found.

The constant recurrence of breakers, trunks of trees in large quantities, fruits and sea wrack, and the smoothness of the sea, all indicated the neighbourhood of extensive land to the south-east.