(ii) The outer narrator speculates that the Time Traveller:
"...may even now - if I may use the phrase - be wandering on some plesiosaurus-haunted Oolitic coral reef, or beside the lonely saline seas of the Triassic Age."
-HG Wells, The Time Machine (London, 1973), EPILOGUE, p. 101.
(iii) Martin Saunders fixes a sandwich in the time projector between the death and birth of the universe.
(iv) Time Patrol agents seeking the event that had transformed Veleda into an anti-Roman prophetess intervene and save her life on the beach where she is being raped by Roman sailors...
There must be others but these four, two from Wells and two from Anderson, came easily to mind over coffee on a wet Sunday morning. Stay tuned.
(One more thought on the matter: beaches are places where important events happen, starting with trilobites crawling onto land. In Hawksbill Station by Robert Siverberg, a time traveller sees one.)
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Also, for. most of history ships were small enough to be 'beached' routinely.
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