Walrus Beach
Going to the Beach
Constance felt that she was spending too much time on line walrus-watching, and decided to go for a head-clearing walk to the beach. Opal and Agathe are always game for a trip to the beach! They grabbed their brand new beach blankets, and trotted along behind.
Wooden fishing float
It was Constance’s lucky day! She found a wooden fishing float washed up and lying in amongst the sea wrack. Old-growth cedar fishing floats were common flotsam and jetsam about 40 years ago, but now are rather rare!
A good perch
She decided it made a great perch, and sat on it gazing about…
Beach Blankets
…while Opal and Agathe played around on their beach blankets….
Walrus Beach
Constance has walruses on the brain. She definitely has been walrus-watching too long – now she thinks she sees them everywhere!!
Rolling Home
Deciding that exercise would help clear the hallucinations away, Constance enlisted the walrus-girls – er – block twins to help her roll the fishing float home!
Click here for the Alaska walrus-cam website!
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Quimper Hittys 
I trust that Constance’s head got cleared after that refreshing jaunt. The walrus population seems to be aplenty in your area.
Many more walruses than Constance ever expected to see on our very own little beach!
those are the cutest beached walruses, hope the girls aren’t exhausted after rolling home.
The block-twins always enjoy a challenge…Constance needed a restorative cup of tea or two once they all rolled home!
Those are the cutest blankets ~EVER~ and I am so glad that the fishing float came home with you – what a fun adventure!!!
Thanks! I had the walrus-coloured sweatshirt fabric leftover from making a baby walrus bunting bag for the smallest human in the family when she was very small.
Oh, that is too cute! Do you have a pattern? Suddenly I have a need for walruses…
The walrus blankets are a 6 1/2 inch square, with a corner added, blanket-stitched around, and a couple of felt “tusks” and bead eyes added…pretty easy!
What a delightful day for beach-combing and exploring. It’s no wonder they were tired! Your photographer is certainly talented. The photos are superb!!
Hi Ann – just so you know and because the Quimper Hitty human doesn’t like to blow her own horn, these are all her photos, as is usually the case. It is only occasionally that I take photos for her to use. I think that usually she takes better Hitty photos than I do, as she has a more sympathetic eye for their view of the world than I ever will, and they are more inclined to hold just the right pose when she is doing the asking.
I am glad you enjoyed the pictures and story today! Thanks very much for your kind comments about the pictures!
I wandered off to the Walrus cam (following the link at the bottom of today’s post) and was astonished to find my sprits bubble and rise into laughter. I was primed by Quimper Hitty’s entry today, but had expected Constance’s addiction to be the result of mesmerising tedium – not so! Now I know what was actually meant by “Not a lot seems to happen, but the girls are amused and strangely fascinated.” The hallucination was also made even more amusing: I could just imagine how Opal and Agathe were moving – or not…
It was my SPIRITS that rose to a spritsy sprightliness …
we laughed ourselves silly putting this post together, I am glad they made you laugh too!
what a funny funny entry in the Quimper chronicles. I so enjoyed the block twins basking as Walruses. Poor Constance. I hope that she recovers from her Walrusitis.
The block twins certainly enjoyed basking! Constance is drinking tea and avoiding the walrus cam for the moment!
What an absolutely delightful post, and a lovely time on the beach was had. What a great little wooden fishing float Constance found, I am sure that will be put to good use.
We are so lucky to live near the beach, and we love to amuse ourselves there (and everywhere!)
I was waiting for the other shoe (or tusk) to drop…I just knew there would be a walrus-encounter on the beach! Didn’t expect such a cute one, though – the beach blankets are adorable! We used to love to search for the Japanese glass floats on the beach when I was little…like treasure.
Ah – you know us so well, you must be a true friend of the Quimper Hittys! 🙂
Always an exciting adventure – for the girls to spend time at the beach…….Constance has walruses on her wooden mind !!!!
Yes, poor thing. She needs to go outside more often!