Thursday, June 16, 2011

Seashore

They come for the beaches but don't find sand. Some are disappointed by the find, I like the wildness of these short stretches of waterfront emptiness.Low tide produces rocks so people flock to Bahia Honda for the sandy beaches. I like to stand among the gravelly sand and the rocks and the flotsam and stare at the horizon.On the Pacific Coast they tout cold foggy coastlines of jagged rock, foam and heavy surf. Around these parts the waters tend to be flat punctuated by lumps of green mangroves, trees growing out of water.
It's not anything like the long sand flats along the shore of the west coast of Florida,...nor is it much like the sandy rolling dunes facing the waves of the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of the Sunshine State. It's the Florida Keys, a world apart.

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