human
Produce a detailed written description of a depressing scene outside a coastal area port with blue paint, a guard, and salt.
assistant
Frowning warehouses, several stories high with projecting cranes, front the winding road. Covered with pale, peeling blue paint and caked white in places with encrusted salt, these shuttered buildings are barred and triple-locked against poachers. Each lock bears the seal of the municipal guard, in some cases vigorously defaced with a knife by some previously frustrated burglar.