The Sea Ogre

The husband and I ended up in Fleetwood today as all the car boots had been cancelled.  Slightly sneaky on my part as I knew it took us past Cleveleys and there was a statue I wanted to blip!

The Sea Swallow is a book that comes to life through a series of pieces of public artwork in a trail along the seafront and every child in the area was given a copy of the book.

The heroine of the story is Mary, daughter of a drowned trawler man, who meets a sea-sprite while exploring the ruins of the lighthouse against which her father’s vessel was wrecked.  He is carrying a shell full of voices, the magical object at the centre of her father’s last, unfinished story.  Mary is granted the ability to journey to the seabed for an encounter with a malevolent sea-ogre, who covets the shell and threatens her village with an inundation. 

It was blowing an absolute gale as we walked along the front but I soon found the sea ogre.  Twice a day he emerges from under the tide, his red eyes followed by all 12 tonnes of him.  

We could see Mary's shell in the distance (in the extra) but my husband said someone was photographing a blow up doll against the shell.  As we got closer it was a model in a gold bikini who must have been absolutely frozen!

Quote for today:
Like seashells, we are beautiful and unique, each with a story to tell.
- Unknown