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Might stay here (if they repair the water main) to sketch - as the heads from the beach are as good as anything I've seen - & the beach is rich with color & ledges & reefs & the leeward boundary is high green hills. Theres a high burning surf tonight.
Sun July 10 - This is one of the most beautiful & most varied spots in all my travels. Beach, headlands to the south, a knell to the north, green hills behind, a creek, reefs, ledges, bluffs, spindrift & surf - all in one place. Sketched. Looked for agates & jasper. Lunch on the rocks. Watercress growing in the mouth of the creek - a plover & her nest of spotted eggs. (A swallow's nest in the garage - one of the 4 baby birds fell out of the. nest & I put it back). A movement of grey clouds & sea mist in the distance. The low low tide in the morning. Looked for clams. A loud returning tide that uncovered more fine rocks (for tumbling). Not much sun today - it did show thru in the evening. Stayed out at the south end of the bay to 9 pm, looking for rocks, & sketching.
Monday July 11. One of those days that are impossible to describe in terms of the physical. In the morning (when we were awakened by the swallows in the garage) I walked on the pebble beach at low tide all the way to the south end of the bay to the shadowed base of sheer cliffs, where the pebbles & boulders were dark & glistening from the receding tide. Looking back to the length of the bay ending in Gwinn's Knoll it struck me that here was Monhegan & Kajai - a place worthy of my beginning 30 years ago! Like a gathering of all my themes & pursuits!