Another notable site from the West is Inch Beach. When we stopped to go down to the water you could smell the salt in the air & hear the waves splash against the shore. The beach was so open, and I could just picture how much more fun it would be in the summer time! It was also so pretty to see the islands off in the distance and the hills of the land. It was good to take in. When I was younger, every summer my family would plan a vacation to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, so the scent and sound is burned into my brain. I just recall knowing I was on vacation and I could play in the sand & water, eat so much snacks, and be with my family. I guess the beach is a way to reminisce in how care-free you get to be as a child, and how you can just live. The first stanza of "To a Child Dancing in the Wind" by Yeats describes exactly what I mean. The poem depicts how you only worry about the very tiny, unimportant things as a child, but when you grow up you are faced with the real world. This also was eye-opening to realize that as a kid, I had no idea what I was going to be challenged with growing up.
"Dance there upon the shore;
What need have you to care
And tumble out your hair
That the salt drops have wet;
Being young you have not known
The fool's triumph, nor yet
Love lost as soon as won,
Nor the best labourer dead
And all the sheaves to bind.
What need have you to dread
The monstrous crying of wind?"
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