Have you ever sat at Shaw’s Cove with your eyes closed and let the cool sigh of the Goddess Pacifica breathe down your neck? Or have you seen the dance of the yellow mustard plants as they jitterbug together through the canyons behind Alta Laguna?
Living in Laguna Beach offers these delicacies from Mother Nature at our doorstep. Where else can you surf with the chattering dolphins at sunrise and then relax with an evening picnic in Laguna’s desert-like backcountry? There isn’t anywhere else like it.
The other day I took my mother visiting from rural Pennsylvania (I mean Amish rural!) down to the tide pools at Shaw’s cove. I observed her personality change from that of a 60 year old grown-up, down to a childlike 11 year old when she spotted some type of drifting sea creature dawdling its way down the cove. With no regard for her own safety, she barreled down the coastline armed with a camera in hopes of snapping a horrible, blurry picture of the creature to show her friends back home. In fact, she has collected several horrible, blurry pictures of Laguna’s wildlife. Her friends back in rural Pennsylvania must think even the animals out here live a fast-paced life!
If I could bottle up the wonderful day my mother had and sell it, I would make a fortune. On second though, I doubt Dior would market a perfume called ‘Crazy 60 Year Old Lady on Vacation’. I guess we should stick to the pictures.
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