"We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always"
Henry David Thoreau - Cape Cod, 1865
Standing on the damp strip of sand shared by the land and the ocean, looking toward land, we see constant change. Wind and weather, growth and decay, people and progress all shape and reshape the land from generation to generation. Turn 180 degrees, and we face the constant ocean. What we see is what a native American standing on this same spot 300 years ago would have seen. The sound of the waves, the line on the horizon where the water joins the sky, the heave and tumble of the water are all unchanged.
As we turn and walk away, the waves scurry across the sand to erase our footprints.
Love these shots of the dunes. I am going to miss the ocean :). Of course it will still be there, I will just be further away...
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