The smell has gone and the shore has been cleansed by the planets great sterilizing unit. The waves still break, but only small red balls of seaweed float onto the shallows, and it is not unpleasant to swim over and push them away.

The water is deep marine green with white breakers that gently massage the shoreline. It is a relief to find sand underfoot. The pebbly beaches along this coast are really one long gigantic shoreline and are very similar to each other in many ways.

Climping beach seems more ordinary, with less human interference, hence our return to it, and to the realization that the sky, wind and water are the determining factors in the physical state of the beach. These huge and vital forces are the driving mechanisms of the earth.