Cannon Beach, Oregon, Through the Five Senses
Essay
2019
What I saw, tasted, smelled, heard, and touched on a recent trip to Cannon Beach.
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¶ Pacific Northwest beaches are briny. They bite back. In anthropomorphic terms, they’re sort of standoffish, not like the easygoing beaches of Southern California or Florida. Here, salt is on the nose—calling to mind rough fleur de sel curls or rock salt, not fine, refined table salt—and, by association, on the tongue. It’s a fresh saltiness that speaks of circulation, and of life. When I think of losing this beach to the San Andreas fault quake, which within the next 50 years is predicted to devastate this coastline, I tear up.