Sitting on the tiny wooden hut up on the grassy hill gave one an excellent view of the entire beach. It also provided some much-welcome shade from the blistering sun and the lack of any real walls meant that there was always a cooling breeze to dry you off.
Rosalina basked in it for a moment, her hair tied back in a ponytail save for the bit covering her face. She'd been swimming - properly swimming - with the Lumas by the castle. The experience fascinated her. The water was just the right temperature to cool you off without being overly cold, and it was so clear that Rosalina could see right to the bottom. It was like looking through a pane of glass. Nothing was obscured, not the spiny pufferfish, not the Lumas who dived adventurously to the sand below, not the castle entrance at the bottom, which had been used until the basin flooded with crystalline water. Looking down on it was like looking back in time, a time when there were many more permanent residents, before the whole galaxy turned into yet another luxurious resort for the adventurous, but not too adventurous.
Rosalina was not the biggest sports fan, but now that she knew swimming could be this fun, she regretted not coming here sooner.
She was done with swimming for the day, however, and she now sat in the tiny hut examining the seashells she and the Lumas had collected. They'd combed the beach for hours, picking up every flash of colour that lay half-buried in the sand. The seashells were arranged in several circular lines around her. It looked as if they'd picked the whole beach clean.
She admired the large conch in her hands. It was a milky white, with opaque streaks of pink and blue all through it. This was one shell that she had found and she'd fallen in love with it immediately.
As soon as she got back to the Comet Observatory, the conch was going straight on her shelf. That way, whenever she looked at it, she would forever be reminded of this day of peace, swimming and shell-collecting, accentuated by warm sand, sparkling water and a salty breeze.
A nice, relaxing day at the beach.