If your country started out as a chain of volcanoes …. 
…very exotic volcanoes…
… in the tropical Pacific, very different volcanoes ….
… in five different island chains over 150 million years …. 
… and if they then drifted across the sea and crashed into North America, lifting new volcanoes up into the clouds …
… and welding the bits together …. a
… and then if super-cooled, subglacial water had blasted all that away and the sea had a go at it for 10,000 years ….
… why, then your beaches might look like this, too.
All beaches are beautiful, of course, but these are the beaches of Cascadia.
To be more specific, these are the beaches of the newest chain of islands to crash on the shore, Islandia.
And if you lift your head and look across the last water to the previous chain, now uplifted and ice-carved and creating rain, why it might just look like this…
…and if you lived there, and if you knew that, you would never see a mountain again. You would see the earth, alive.
Rocks! My favorite subject — they speak to me.
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They speak well. Have you found that website with photos of sand from nearly every beach around the world? I used it once to write a short story.
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