Beauty and the Beach — Roaming with Roth

When is a walk on the beach more than a walk on the beach? Answer: When you open your eyes to the beauty around you. Seems apparent. Yes? But, 'the devil's in the details'. Adele and I are typically on Playa Portrero by 8AM the latest. Approximately 4km. long, it takes a few ticks over an hour to walk the beach from nearly one end to the other and back. In other words, it doubles the time it would normally take to walk the @2.5 miles. The slow saunter enables me the opportunity to raise my aspect across an expanse of steel blue, shimmering sea, to the rise of rock cliffs matted with tufted trees, and the distant sailors and fishermen in skiffs to schooners, searching for schools of fish.

Or, I lower my head to have revealed a beauty of a different nature - not massive but discreet; not grand rather granular in scale. The small, exquisite and surprising life in the sand. It is said that "the devil's in the details". Never so much as when you wak the beach.