…passing through this arch in a boat, after the nesting area where hundreds, thousands of pelicans, yellow-legged gulls, blue-footed boobies, magnificent frigate birds (some of the males still sporting their red gular pouches), imagine hearing and smelling the 700 California sea lions before you saw them, on rocks and in water,
and then imagine the beach where you arrived to swim, eat ceviche on tacos, the blue sky your umbrella.
...Theresa Kishkan 