Surviving on the Beach

Daymer Beach, Cornwall
(c) Amanda van Mulligen

"I don't understand this settlement behaviour," my husband said as we plonked ourselves down on Daymer Bay beach in Cornwall.

Couples and families were camped out on the overpopulated beach around us with fold away chairs with built in cup holders, portable tables, tents, wind breakers, transistor radios, enough reading material to stock a local library and a cool box filled with enough to satisfy the most ravenous of hungers for a few days should the world's food chain suddenly implode. One group had even brought their own full size BBQ and looked like they were there for the long haul.

"You don't see this in the Netherlands," he uttered, genuinely bewildered.

Anyone beg to differ?