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I LOVE TO WALK THE HERRMAN BEACH

I LOVE TO WALK THE HERRMAN BEACH

Sunrise, 6 AM
Consolea Millspaughii (no common name) a rare cactus
Forest photo from the blufftop looking across the green wetland


I love to walk The Herrman Beach
Very early in the day
Sargassum weed pushed on the sand
Night-herons poking there for prey

Into the wind, easterly
Pushing spray into my face
Tracks of birds and soon in June
Tracks of turtles as I pace

My specs are hidden safe from salt
As I walk the water’s edge
Else I’d be too blind to see
Swallows zipping past my head

Am I here? I’m like an Ancient
Old as the sand I walk upon
A green isle set in Carib Sea
As the eons still roll on

Freely forever set aside
This sea and seagrape-bounded strand
Of ever changing sea and sand
So part of earth will still abide

Just a sublim’nal glimpse we see
The waves will set my footprints free
For fathomless eternity
Our bounden duty: Let it be

jwp


On the occasion of the dedication of this land given to The National Trust for the Cayman Islands by the daughters of the late Dr. Roy and Mrs. Estelle Herrman
April 13, 2018

Herrman beach from the point of view of a sea turtle (water’s edge looking inland up the beach to the sea grape)
Blue Elephant Cave (an ancient underground stream emerged from the cliff to meet the risen seas at the Brac “wave notch”)