CONTEMPLATION: AN OCEAN, A SUNSET, A CLIFF AND YOU
You have seen it; you arrive at the ocean at sunset — a seaside overlook on the northern California coast, a sprawling beach on Florida’s Gulf of Mexico, or, in this case, a sheer cliff overlooking a narrow beach on the Oregon coast.
You’re rarely alone; others come to the scene. It’s kind of like the opening scene from the movie City of Angels, where all the Angels and their black jackets gather on a Los Angeles beach.
It had been a long day of driving from the Lost Coast in extreme northern California up U.S. 101 into Gold Beach, Oregon. We dined on Rogue River trout preceded with clam chowder – if I’m on the coast, I always eat clam chowder with dinner – and decided to walk the cliffs before sunset.
Driving up the coast north of town, we found a parking area in a trailhead off of the Old Coast Road and took the trail to Otter Point. Walking through the seagrass, spelling the salt air, the wildflowers, in the waning afternoon, was such a moment of peace as if there were nothing else in the world.
I don’t know what it is about coastal overlooks, but on that trip taking the scenic coastal road, California Highway 1, from San Francisco to Crater Lake National Park, every time we’d stopped to gaze out across the ocean and the soothing moment from the movement of the waves, there’d be others with us doing the same thing.
Perhaps it’s something that’s primal deep in the depths of our minds.
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