Friday, July 28, 2006
Road to the Sea Beach... again...
It's the beach that we can see from our living room window; about 10 miles downhill. It's a 4-wheel drive event. No puny tourist vehicle will make the trip, and it is too undeveloped to attract many locals. On one side is a barely swimable, black sand covering green sand beach (every footprint is green sand under black beach top), on the other side is a calm tide pool with regular soft wave injections. Just Perfect.
As we arrive somebody else is often just leaving, and as we leave somebody else just arrives. Karmic privacy. In one of the most sought out tourists destinations on the planet we find a public beach with so little traffic as to be our own private beach, often with not so much as a boat on the horizon for the few hours we spend there each week. Truly paradise.
We play in the surf, getting to be stronger swimmers every time we go. We explore the tide pool, getting to know the water life better. Coral toughens up our skin. The ocean always wins, as we are tossed about like leaves in a whirlwind. Today I have 3 cuts on my foot from rocks in the surf, 2 scrapes on my thigh from coral, and board-burn on my belly from the boogie-board we play in the surf with. It's a small price to pay for such fun returned. I spent 11 years sitting behind a computer screen getting soft, and I expect to spend the next 40 letting the island surf toughen me up. I was slowly dying back there in San Francisco and didn't even know it, now here in Hawai`i I have reason to live to be twice as old as I am now.
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