Silver Lake Book Tour Pt 2

By coralmccallum on July 24, 2024

As I mentioned in my previous Silver Lake blog, I recently returned to spend some time in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, USA, the setting for my Silver Lake series of books.

On my first day back in town I was up early to be on the beach for sunrise at 5:40am. (Jet lag helped here lol) Sitting on the sand, watching the sun creep up over the horizon felt truly magical…then I looked north up the beach and saw them… the two WWII fire control towers that are mentioned many times in the books as Jake Power goes for an early morning run along the beach to turn at them.

My running stamina doesn't extend to running that far on sand (more on that in a future blog) but I decided I could walk out to them instead.

Walking along the waterline with the waves washing in over my bare feet as the sun slowly climbed higher in the sky was so peaceful. There were a few other early birds out walking on the beach, so I wasn't the only one watching the sky turn many shades of red through gold. It was the perfect way to start my first day in town.

Two or three locals ran past me as I walked. I really wasn't hard to imagine that one of them was Jake.

The towers proved to be slightly further north than they looked but eventually I reached them. A chill ran up my spine as I realised that I'd stepped into the pages of my own novels.

There are 11 fire control towers in total across Delaware and southern New Jersey. They were commissioned by the US Army in the 1940s and were watch towers. The two at Rehoboth Beach, Towers #5 and #6 stand about 60 feet high. Their entrances and windows are sealed off but as I stood looing up at them I couldn't help but wonder just how spectacular the view of the ocean would be from the top.