Dark pillars of lava rock stand tall in the surf, like sentinels guarding the shore. A frothing wave rolls, roils and slams the rocks with the force of more than a thousand miles of open ocean. And then another and another.
Rush, pound, boom, spray—so many sounds of turbulent water colliding with land. The moist air, sticky with salt, mists the tropical rainforest on this rugged, windswept
