A Foggy Day at the Beach

Today (Sunday) Mommy took us to the Scheveningen Museum.  Our neighborhood used to be a fishing village separated from the city of Den Haag by hilly sand dunes.   So the museum is full of models of fishing boats and the tools that fishermen used and lots and lots of sea shells and paintings of the fishing boats.  There’s a little room that’s just like the cabin that the herring fishermen used to live in while they were at sea.

So we decided to go to the beach ourselves to see what sea shells we could find.  First we stopped on the “boulevard” at the top of the beach for a snack from a kiosk.  Henry had a plain sausage and William had a paper cone of french fries with ketchup.  The tide was very, very low and it was foggy and about 34 degrees out.  But there were hundreds of people walking along the beach with their dogs and their baby buggies.  The tide was so far out that we could walk out on some causeways that are usually underwater.  They were covered in shells.  It was great.

Here’s a photo of the shells we found today.

The Shells We Found on 24/1/2010

By the way, the photograph at the top of the blog is of the beach at Scheveningen, where we were today.