Booking Through Thursday: Una's My Beach Buddy

This week's Booking Through Thursday question asks: "Which fictional character (or group of characters) would you like to spend a day at the beach with? Why would he/she/they make good beach buddies?"

I've been thinking about it for a couple of hours, and I keep coming back to the same character: Una Spenser from Ahab's Wife. Now, I realize this is a really unorthodox choice. After all, she probably isn't the first person to come to mind when you think of the beach. Then there is the...