Drown my feelings in the sea / dry out over the beach

Ryan was averse to doing something so touristy at Doe Bay as posing with this wooden tiger (is it a tiger? I'm suddenly not so sure). But you can only take so many photos of the beautiful bay (my count: 300), so eventually we turned our lenses this way. The picture of me is on Ryan's camera, so sorry, readers, no snoop-a-looping into your author's visage.