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your desire, we have
the beachfront to satisfy. When the tide is high and the moon is
low (and the stars hang planetarium-like in all their millions),
you can take your sweetheart for a walk and revisit the night sky.
Can you see the archer Orion straining to pull back a longbow
light years across? or see the crab constellation Cancer looking
down on his earth-bound brethren as they zip and crawl about
beneath the rippled sea? Can you smell the warm wind laden with
brine as it wings its way to where you sit on the beach, or will
you just fade away into the dreamy smoke of a romantic campfire?
When the tide is low and the sun is up, you are welcome to enter
the world of the intertidal zone—that place where chitons and
limpets, starfish and crabs, sea pens and sea weeds
vie for
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space and for the nutrients that abound in that special area between the tides. Stretching out hundreds of feet towards the Myrtle Rocks, our low-tide beach-head beckons, chalk-full of little worlds. Bring your macro lens and a good book to help you identify the colourful flora, fauna and fungi that make up one of the richest varieties of intertidal life to be found anywhere in the world. Barnacles, muscles, whelks, snails, worms—they're all there to be discovered. But what's that? Now soaring high over head, now gliding majestically to the ground. It is a white-crowned bird of great size and bearing, the Bald Eagle. We can't see what he's come down for. Whip out your binoculars, tell us what you see and then realize that it's only a tiny part of the beachfront here at Oceanside.
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