All things related to the Seaside

[SOS]

Any ideas anyone please? Can be places, songs, flora and fauna or indeed anything connected with the seaside
Loses its shine? - 5 letters
A merry place by the sound of it? - 5 letters

[beejay1124]

dulse ?

[quinie]

Blyth?

[SOS]

Thanks beejay1124 - love it. Not sure if I'm being thick, quinie, I don't get it?

[boxtops]

Blithe is another word for carefree, Blyth is a place, sounds like blithe

[quinie]

Blyth -a town in Northumberland -sounds like blithe meaning happy or merry

[SOS]

Said I was being thick! Thanks very much. Any ideas for this one: blasted fortification! - 11 letters

[quinie]

I thought sandcastle but only 9 letters

[SOS]

yeah sandcastle was my first thought, and now I've got it in my head I can't think of anything else! :-(

[Giggsie]

sandcastles

[SOS]

No, don't think it can be plural, because of the wording of the question?

[quinie]

Sorry,can't count - sandcastle has 10 letters

[boxtops]

Is there a place called Heathcastle? (shakespeare's Blasted Heath in Macbeth)

[quinie]

True- clue is singular.Back to the drawing board then!It was the first word I thought of-sand blasting+castle

[quinie]

Hi,boxtops,I couldn't find Heathcastle in the Gazetteer-good thinking though,

[SOS]

Last one for tonight ...Badge of pilgrimage to Santiago - 11 letters. All I can find is a reference to the scallop shell but can't find one word with 11 letters!

[quinie]

Cockleshell? Found this when i looked up badge then I googled -cockleshell-santiago.Sorry I'm no good at giving links but just google and you'll find the explanation

[looloo]

18. Ballycastle