Texture & Intricacies – Mattole Beach Campground
It’s easy to be swept away by the powerful vastness at Mattole Beach, where the river meets the sea. The steep, near vertical King Range, that dominate & defiant set of mountains that gave birth to the Lost Coast, give way here. The Mattole River knocked & pounded at its door for an age, breaking it down, carving out a panoramic amphitheater; tumultuous beach & river mouth to the north, King Range cliffs forming the southeast wall, and the immense Pacific Ocean to the west persistently tickling and battering. Here the word Awesome truly does apply.
Welcome to the edge of the continent.
A keen eye helped me to see that this little part of the Lost Coast has so much more splendor to reveal than the immensity of sea and crumbling cliffs. The textures and intricacies are boundless! My camping companion, an ardent observer, was passionately enraptured by this. On our wanderings she shared her observations: collages, lines, and lace, shadows and light. I feel I’ve been told a remarkable secret.
“The texture of the world, its filigree and scroll work, means that there is the possibility of beauty here, beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature…” – Annie Dillard
Knock, Knock, knock…the secret of intricacies is calling
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