A Rare Bit of Coast

My first volunteer activity with Ben was to head to a village of temporary houses to talk with survivors, assess their needs, and perform "tapping touch," a kind of massage. I'll have more to say about this later, but for lunch we (a group of five) drove up the mountain to this picnic area. High on the side of the hill, the picnic area looks down into a small bay with brilliant blue water. Because there are no buildings along the bay, and probably because of the steep cliffs, from this particular viewpoint we could see no tsunami damage-- a little glimpse of the marine paradise this coast was before the tsunami, and a preview of the beauty that will come again.