maccarese

{windy day at the beach}

I had never seen so many kite-surfers all together in one place. The wind and big waves (big for central Italy, at least) delighted both the surfers and us watching.

In the first and last photo are two characteristic '70s Roman beach icons, a Tellinaro–man who harvests wedge shells (telline, or arselle) by dragging a tall and heavy strainer device with metal “teeth” through the sand of the shallows–and a Pattino, muscle-and-oar propelled leisure vessel; in many beach lidos like this one, it is employed as a lifeguard emergency vehicle.