After a long day,

filled with meetings and internal politics and lots of logistically difficult data collection, it was nice not only to visit my favorite bathroom in the region before heading back to my room,

but also to stop by a pier en route home and watch jellyfish swim about in the unnaturally still waters, and then end the day at the beach just down the street from the hotel, replete with seagulls, cormorants, pelicans, otters, seals, and dolphins. And a setting sun. If it weren't for the sand flies, well, and the cold and hunger, I'd still be there right now.