Seagull Beach

Seagull Beach before it became the famous resort it is today

## Seagull Beach Synopsis

"*Seagull beach resort and campsite is the best beach in the district. We're talking games, volleyball, shallow pool, deep pool, hotel, the whole shebang. If you have the money, you can even rent it! Imagine having an entire beach to yourself... wow! We got the best staff'n'lifeguards you can get, come to Seagull beach resort and campsite, NOW!*"

-Riccard Morton, public spokesperson.

Seagull Beach is a beach located near Rosewater.

## History

Back in 1889, the beach was first discovered by local settlers. This would become a popular fishing spot for most people within the local area. People would continue to fish until it was banned after many of the fish had become endangered species, in 1914. After that it mostly became a location for hikers and explorers, having little public attention.

In this time the coastline became known for various urban and supernatural legends taking place there. This earned it the nickname "The Ghoul sands." Which it would be referred to for quite some time. By 1924, the Ghoul sands had become locally famous among places such as Rosewater, Lower Duck Pond, Threadville, etc. It was subject to many visits, and began to form littering problems as less-experienced tourists began coming to the Ghoul sands ro see them for themselves.

**Pollution**

Justin Mcgaw, the technical owner was at a crossroads and unsure how to solve the pollution problem. He had a lot of pride from people coming to his beach, and didn't want to privatize it, and he didn't have the money to turn it into a full-fledged attraction either. He ended up asking for volunteers to help clean up the Beach in January of 1925, the last cheap resort he could think of.

His call to action generated some activity for a couple months, with various people cleaning up the beaches for free. Though as it grew more popular, with more ghost stories being fabricated, the amount of volunteers grew smaller and smaller. In April of 1926, Mcgaw finally went public with the issue, stating that the beach was closing in six months. This generated a lot of protest, even people showing up to his house to protest. Regardless, on November 19th, 1927, the Ghoul Sands were closed.

Even more shockingly, on the 30th after questioning, Mcgaw announced that the beach would be permanently closed as long as he remained owner of the plot. He also announced he planned to clean up the beach and use the money from his ranch to build property on there, and eventually rent it out to others.

**Business**

Nothing was heard of the beach until August of 1928, when Mcgaw announced he had insufficient funds and would be selling the 5 km beach for around $70,000.00, and would be accepting applications. This prompted even more protesters, worrying about the corporate makeover the famous beach would go through. Mcgaw responded to this with "The constant whining 'n' protesting from y'all, is exactly why I'm selling the damn thing!"

On September 8th, of 1928 Justin Mcgaw sold the beach for 90 grand to George Mcdonald, a multi-millionaire trader. Mcdonald immediately enacted his plans for an entire dock and lighthouse, officially changing the name on the lease to "Ghoulish Bay." A reference to the old nickname and inward curve of the beach. George estimated the entire thing would cost about half of what it did for him to buy it.

The project would be delayed multiple times over a nine-year period, eventually costing Mcdonald three times the estimated price due to an anti-raccoon group known as the Raccoon Rallies burning down the beach several times due to its support from animal rights activists. Mcdonald announced on new years of 1938 that the project would be cancelled after the completion of the lighthouse for financial and legal reasons. The lighthouse was abandoned immediately after creation, and George Macdonald sold the beach to Brockton Industries on January 25th of 1938, for 50 grand.

Brockton would be the longest owner since Mcgaw, owning it for 17 years before eventually transferring ownership. The first thing they did was renovate the beach, and commission a neighborhood extending into the beach, changing the length of the beach to four kilometers instead of the original five. Justin Mcgaw who had sold his entire property after a devastating lawsuit, used his remaining funds to move into the small congregation of 15-20 houses, and bring up a small icecream shop.

**Renovation**

In 1941, Brockton opened up a small, rentable beach resort, including a cabin and stores the renters could shop at, including Mcgaw's icecream shop. The resort would have quite minimal revenue for the next eight years, as Brockton Industries had mostly forgotten about their beach settlement, and had moven on to other things. By 1949, Justin Mcgaw was
suddenly offered to become the manager of the resort, as BI had felt that the beach had mpre potential and they were aware of Mcgaw's business experience. His first commands as manager, were to transform the cabin into an administrative building for the resort, and
change the rental system to a system of buying tickets to come to the beach.

Eventually the beach began getting attention for the first time in 21 years, this time with revenue. The resort adapted a more cartoonish theme, and ended up changing the name from Ghoulish Bay to Isle of the Pirates. In 1153 the company had amassed a revenue of $10,000,000 from the resort. They began to get offers like mad from other businesses, mostly due to the fact Brockton Industries had neither the time nor the effort to produce a second franchise, something people thought could generate mass-amounts of revenue. Eventually in 1955, Brockton Industries sold the entire property and business to Gorrem entertainment, for 30 million dollars.

**The Famous Resort**

Isle of the Pirates was getting famous, and now it was owned by the famous Gorrem Entertainment. The first thing Gorrem Entertainment did was tear down the set of beachfront houses, and evict their owners. In one of the first board meetings, Justin scolded them for this, and he got immediately fired as well. Justin then moved to his daughters house in Rosewater, after badmouthing Gorrem Entertainment intensely.

GE (Gorrem Entertainment), also decided to tear down the 54 y.o famous statue of Alexand Mcgaw, which had stood at the center of the beach for decades on end. They replaced this with a statue of multiple seagulls on a rock, called "The Great Seagull Crowd." As their final act of transformation, they changed the name to "The Swashbuckling Cove Resort."

On the 1st of October, 1955 they closed down the resort for what was planned to be two years. In this time they were to build kiddie pools, slides, a hotel, and so much more. After a year and a half, in a freak-wrecking ball accident, a huge percentage of the infastructure was destroyed, and the project took an entire three and a half more years to be finished. After this, and months more of careful preparation, on the first of October, 1960, the Swashbuckling Cove Resort opened and advertisement began en masse.

Along with their grand opening, they fired and replaced the entire team of 20 responsible for the new resort, for a fresh beginning. Remarkably, these destructive marketing tactics somehow worked and the new manager, Ryan Forde became a household name in many of the surrounding cities, and townships.

For 16 years, everything ran smoothly until the resort was practically of international fame, Forde was swimming in his riches, the second and third resorts scattered across the continent were rising in fame, then Forde quit. It came as a huge surprise and Forde explained his actions with "I'm fucking done, this shit is too stressful." And didn't give much more explanation.

At this point they hired a new manager, Tom Ryland but the resort never recovered, and in 1978 the resort was shut down for good.

The Beach was eventually bought by Justin Mcgaw in 1983, where he spent his final days, before his death in 2001. Most of the resort was bulldozed in 2008, and was bought by Jared Mcgaw and functioned as a mostly normal beach for swimming.

In 2009, the beach officially became a township, with Jared McGaw as it's first and current mayor, with mayor Selena Cranshaw serving from 2012-15 and McGaw being re-elected.

The beach still exists and is a lot smaller, with the town forming a section of the beach and surrounding forest.

## Geography

Seagull Beach curves inward and is primarily composed of sand. It is accessible by footpaths on either end, or a road that leads directly in to the middle, with entrance booths at all entrances. There is a 10-feet gravel path that connects to the beach and the parking lot that acts as a road as well as a footpath, and leads to the campsite. There are diving boards at the left end, and multiple life guard stations throughout.

## Present

Currently the mayor of Seagull Beach, is Jared McGaw. He's been the mayor since 2015, and served from 2009-12 before that. His main goals are to gentrify the town as well as steer away from it being a simple resort, and increase population.

Election season starts in May, with Jared McGaw, Selena Crenshaw, and Dephne Syren verifying they will run this season.

Recently there was a seagull beach hockey team established, though they've had complications due to Coronavirus, among other things.

## Trivia

•A month and a half ago, two men died at Seagull Beach.

•Seagull Beach had an extremely low crime rate.