A No Wind Situation
February 10, 2011
After a few days of howling winds, a hike in the hills, above the ocean, on a warm, still day… pretty nice. February’s a good time on the coast because, well, all of the above, but also the ground is lush and wet and the grass new and extra green, and it makes for easy walking–easy on the legs, easy on the senses. I guess I don’t have to say the water’s all sparkly blue.
The north coast, any time of year, really, is gorgeous. Or maybe it works better like this: it’s gorges. (Sorry.)
Made for a cow–this place–or sheep. There are lots of those roaming the hills inland of Dillon Beach, but we didn’t see any on this walk. What we did see was a small herd of deer. Most homeowners probably think of them as pests, but it’s still cool to see them, especially by the water. I thought: nice place to be a deer.
If you peer over the edge of the cliff in the above picture, you see this, and that herd of deer. I know… tiny, but they’re there, and they’re bounding confidently along this steep slope.
Here’s what they looked like closer up.
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