The Ocean

I have not even mentioned the ocean since I started this blog about beach life! I have been there several times since we arrived just under two weeks ago. I have been there for sunset which is indescribable. For the past two years while vacationing here, sunset has been, for us, a sacred time to be on the beach. My husband and I, rookie tourist then (and now!) would take our portable beach chairs down to the sand 30 minutes before the sun starts its rapid decent. We would hike through town carrying our beach chairs on our backs. You know the kind, backpack straps, blue canvas seats, wooden recline-able arms, major geek vacation gear. The whole family has matching chairs plus the bonus portable cooler. Very nice (wink).

As we walk through town alone, our two daughters are uninterested and our teenage son won't be caught dead anywhere near the backpack chairs, we are happy and relaxed thinking about the light beers we will drink at the beach. My husband carries the matching cooler. We walk the boardwalk until the stairs carry us over the sand dune and deposit us on the beach. Pick a spot, any spot, they are all good and have the same view. And that is all we do sit, watch, hold hands and marvel at the intensity of the beauty.

Everyone should see this kind of beauty once a day. Why is the planet designed so only certain places have the benefit of this specter? Aren't all creatures equal in the eyes of Mother Earth? Aren't we all offspring of Mother Nature? If you ask me this seems like playing favorites. The reds in the sky are so dark and so brilliant that it starts to look black. The ocean almost turns to Mercury, thick and shinny moving in slow heavy waves. The sand is so fine that if you walk without picking up your feet the friction creates sparks, real sparks you can see after the sun sets and its dark.

The next morning, a mere 11 hours later, the sun rises with equal beauty. Mother Earth, you have really out done yourself.