Wow! this place is unreal. About mid-day, I was driving a gravel road through a cattle area that looked like the alterrnate world Pt. Reyes, and discovered a trailhead down to a secret beach. I descended with sweeping views of an offshore island through grazing fields which yielded to a mixed tropical forest with ferns and flowers and big trees covered with creepers and lianas. I kept thinking I was in Hawaii (the place names -- Otupere, Whangarei, Whipiti, etc, etc. -- definitely contribute to that effect.
At the bottom, I found a protected cove onto a beach with perfect white sand. I took lunch under a broad tree, with a chalky cliff face wrapping around me and a small waterfall shooting off onto the beach. the sea was torquise to pale blue and gently frothing about like water in a bucket being carried by its metal handle.
i kicked back and ate some local jam and avocados that I had bought at a roadside farm. I chilled into a deep state of comfort...I didn't sleep, but closed my eyes and went through a waking dream, where I was sort of flying through all of these familiar places -- inverness, my grandparent's old house, my old neighborhood in berkeley -- and with the gently sloshing of the sea, it was incredibly peaceful. When I opened my eyes, I was quite literally in paradise. It was a significant moment.
That hike rated about one of the very best of my life, seriously. Two days in a row now, I have experienced stuff that compares to the best of pt reyes...but this is all NEW! i am completely engaged. every night is the night before xmas at this point.
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