4.20pm, Sunday May 17, cliff edge in Miraflores ....misty by the beach

I look out at the ocean, watching the surfers come in through the haze. Surfers come to Peru for the waves, but the beach here, below Miraflores, is not beautiful. A major highway runs along it and there are only several meters of packed-flat dark sand with cars parked on it, and then rocks lead to the water. The sea is a greeny dark grey. There are occasional inlets with much more sand in rounded clumps. I watch the mist cloud sail in from the sea, passing a green cliff farther down from where I perch covered in morning glories. It is very green here in this park above the sea, with morning glory ground cover, thick green grass, short palms planted in diagonal rows and couples making out underneath them. Another couple has just come with six little white golf balls and mallets.


Parque El Faro