Stood on Deception Pass yesterday, as I've been wanting to all summer. Wow, we should just not let people stand on that bridge for too long. It's easy to forget, when you're there, how high up you are and really to forget it all in staring at the emerald water that's glittering and pulsing along like a life stream in Final Fantasy. It's depthless.
It's also 200 feet high, and vibrates when the big semis go over it. Most people walk in one straight line, take in the whole bridge, but I know what the rest of it looks like, so I stop in the middle and stare over the edge. For fifteen minutes.
And it just ripples and erupts, because there are rocks beneath the water that affect the sea flow. The five or six little fishing boats, rowboats really, get jostled by it and I watched one kill a seagull accidentally. It ate the fishing line and, despite the guy's efforts, it died. Generally, when seagulls stop flapping wildly in the water, it's a Bad Sign.
There was a live harbor seal though, paddling under the bridge. Everything stands out against that deep green water, so the sleek mottled grey body stood out really well. It was lovely.
But, staring at all that loveliness, you forget that your car is in the parking lot, and you've other things to do, and you want to fall into the loveliness.