That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 28, 2023

/// Babies soaking in surf should be clean,

(though they’re using it as a latrine).

Young Amphibians will

suffer in an oil spill.

Now they’re all coated with Vaselene.

My original post in 2019:

First came the children, then came the oxen (top right corner).

For some reason, the oxen caught my eye even though they’re barely visible.

My original comment: Ebb tide exposes the strangest creatures.

Chippendales for little girls?

Washed off the sunblock, eh?

Emerging from the foam of the ocean, the babies kept slipping off their Half Shells.

Coppertone skin care ads aimed at children.

Reminded me of these song lyrics: “Then the tide rushes in, and washes my castles away”.

The enemy swarms ashore/

Small Invaders – unarmed – by the score !/

They’re not wearing pants-/

But we don’t have a chance ;/

As a matter of fact- we want more !

See, if you look closely, you can see I had corn last night….

Turtles hatch from eggs laid on the beach and swim to the ocean. Some of them get mixed up and head the wrong way. Volunteers steer them in the right direction.

Are you a turtle?

The tadpoles near Three Mile Island seem to be mutating.

Dennis, there’s some lovely filth down here.

Jim Henson’s Surfer Babies.

It’s a sad comment on our times that this picture if done today, in America, would get the artist censured, if not arrested, for “kiddie porn”.

Next up is the Big Wheel stage.

That one child must be the on Roger Miller was singing about in “England Swings” (Fourth line in the chorus)

The Young Amphibians or Children at the Seashore: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:1903 paintings by Joaquín Sorolla" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Ninos, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting. File history has the strip coloration image.

That larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2260 (8/8/19) (September 27, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 4 works by this artist have been used here (6 times total, including this Throwback Thursday and a prior repeat), the August 8, 2019, strip being its first use. The December 1, 2022, strip has the prior by him.

Girl: Why aren’t you wearing bathing suits. Boys: Cause we are nudists!

You musht remember thish/

Your grandpa was a fish/

That no one can deny/

Chaz Darwin got it right- yes, quite!/

As time goes by..///

The Sol & Ish Poetry Commentary Competition Contest, may the best Poet win…

“Children on the Seashore,” 1903

being a good Christian girl, she has on clothes but no underwear.

Priest: I’m not feeling too well. I think I’ll go down to the beach today.

Some comments from the original post:

@Strob “No one knows why schools of babies beach themselves along this stretch of coast.”

@Rev Phnk Ey “Quick, gather a bunch of people and push them back in.”

@Call Me Ishmael “No baby expects the Spanish Inquisition…=)”

@juncarlo “I am sure that my contact lens fell here.”

@rmremail “Yes, Irma, that’s where babies come from.”

Boy: “I don’t think we’re doing this right?”

Girl: “Yes you are.”