Gulf Islands National Seashore, Gulf Breeze, Florida "Raging, restless, robust, gentle, soft, calm. ...Rhythmic, shifting, beckoning, the voices of surf and sand: the sands speaking, the sands of all time." Jesse Earle Bowden quoted in Gulf Islands: The Sands of All Time. I'm not the only one with a fascination, even a longing for the sensations of the beach. The rhythmic surf pounding on the shore and then rushing up the sand to paint a fresh canvas; the salty tang in the mouth; the cool breeze on the skin; the gritty sand sifting through your toes only to be washed by the cold water. Although I'm a mountain boy, born and raised in the Rockies, far from any ocean - or maybe because of that - I have always been drawn to the smells, sounds, textures,
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