57:04 Tenerife: El Pris, positioned to inspire with its rugged beauty.
Jen and I had walked down to the ocean on a Sunday. It’s a steep descent and then of course, the ascent is funnily enough, equally steep. It shows there is balance in the world. We were eating brunch on a bench (picture 1) in a general area of Mesa del Mar, our new neighborhood haunt, when Jen pointed out a man had just exited from the pool. The pool is man-made but sits adjacent to the ocean. At the higher tides, it is filled with fresh seawater (pictures 3&4). Makes one think how one would explain fresh water in this context, usually meant to be water without saline. I digress. The man had no legs. It was sobering; watching him was humbling but also filled us with admiration. We often think of ‘I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a person with no feet’. The pool viewed from a position after completing two-thirds of the hike down (partial close-up). The bench we sat upon can be seen in front of the pool, our side. (For some of our South African ...