Bond… James Bond.
I felt like I was in the middle of a James Bond movie. Palm trees, white sand, small bikinis, just
missing the license to kill. And the
bloody guy washed up on the beach. So I
guess the picture was missing a lot, but that could be seen as a very good thing.
We spent the whole
day at the beach, the morning part in a more popular, classic beach and then
after lunch at a beach with beautiful, huge rocks that made a beautiful picture
with the waves crashing up against them.
In the first beach, I walked with a good friend through the sand dunes
that surrounded the beach, running/falling down them, taking fun pictures and
watching a kite surfing lesson. A little
later I walked down to the shoreline by myself.
The beach descends at a very small decline, leaving a lot of the gray,
textured sand with only a few inches of water running smoothly over it. I lied in the shallow, warm beach water and
soaked in the sun and amazingness of my situation. Every few minutes the water would come in and
trace my body with the silky, grey sand, support me for a moment, and then pull
away back towards the ocean. I could
have stayed there all day. With just the
sound of the waves, a low mumble of Portuguese, and someone’s guitar playing a
slightly familiar tune, I felt so recharged and re-centered. The ocean is my recharge place, it’s my
zen. 
Later that day, as I said, we went to the second beach,
which also looked like it belonged to a movie, but maybe Indiana jones. Waves crashed against large, jagged rocks,
making white foam. The hike down the
cliff was adventurous, being that it was like a sand-slide.
But the dune ride the next day was really what made me
feel like Indiana Jones. Sitting on top
of the buggy and screaming as we took the steep dunes down! I could hear the theme song playing in my
head. At the end of the ride my entire
body was covered with a layer of sand and I was washing it out of my hair for days.
There was some Canada v.s. USA rivalry going on…
I definitely won.
And the last night there was spent watching the sunset from the top of the dune.
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