Far to the south, sea is also a vast expanse: summer at Villa Sequeira: Coastal Sensibilities (Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, 1884 1892)

A brief introduction to distinguishing between beaches - Think about this: when you arrive at Balneário Cassino, you'll find yourself on a beach filled with cars, tarmac and buildings that hide thousands of tourists; you arrive at a place where small, shoebox-shaped skyscrapers have taken the place of manor houses and verandas, where the green of the gardens has been replaced by a tangle of advertisements vying for space and polluting the view; you are arriving - though you do not yet realise it - at a beach that insists on swapping the blue of the sea for the fumes of cars playing their own music. Flee this beach quickly. Accept a shift, bend time, we find spatialities of yesterday; summer; locomotives; hotel; drownings; guides; body in the water. Villa Sequeira. A beach that emerges in the text.