minus tide beach
seal pups barking so loud
that ravens hide
This beach was a three mile hike from the road mostly on a boardwalk through a deep forest. When I finally saw an opening in the trees with light pouring through, I began to hear this intense racket: gulls calling, a few ravens cawing, and what sounded like thousands of seal pups barking in the water near the island. Not a quiet beach at all, but breathtakingly beautiful. I wanted to stay and watch the sunset--ribbons of clouds forming in the west promised that it would be spectacular--but I didn't dare attempt to walk back in the near-darkness. The cedars and spruce were so thick that the forest was fairly dark even in full daylight. Ah, I will have to go back.
A snake with the dreaded three colors--red, black and yellow--slithered across the boards, hurrying home too.
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