You stepped out of the anteroom and found yourself on a raised concrete platform at the back of which washed the sea.

Very extensive harbour works, half completed, ran farther out in a great semicircle across a wide space of leaden water, over which gulls were circling and crying; but the thin black line of this wall hardly interrupted one's sense of looking straight out to sea, and its wide mouth away on the right let in the real invigorating, sea-smelling wind.

The camp itself was a mere strip between the railway-line and the water, a camp of R.E.'s to which he was attached.

He was also to work a hospital which was said to be close by.
It was pointed out to him later.

The railway ran out all but to the harbour mouth, and there ended in a great covered, wide station.