Sand Bar

Sand Bar "Your focus determines your reality." —Qui-Gon Jinn Witnessing an amazing low-tide phenomenon, as if a walkway to a parallel world has suddenly appeared, extending one-half mile from East Beach out to sea People are slowly gathering, walking, stopping, stooping, staring in silence, speaking softly— I'm as eager as Simon Peter to join them, yet somewhat afraid of walking where there has been only seawater minutes before— Chattering dolphins beckoning in the distance instill confidence So I join them, stepping from the beach onto the other-worldly terrain, first 42 steps confirming we are not alone! Surrounded by a menagerie of sand crabs, clams, beach flea amphipods, sea roach isopods, ghost, hermit, and fiddler crabs, even cannonball jellyfish— shades of the Mos Eisley Cantina on Tatooine in miniature But beware of semidiurnal tidal cycles! Twice a day at high tide the sea, like an unstable vortex of a Chappa'ai, consumes the phenomenon, even the beach itself, to the edge of the dune "The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience." —Frank Herbert "So long and thanks for all the fish!" —Exiting dolphins' farewell message, translated by Douglas Adams