If this works, there will be a photo I took above. This is at the end of the Sheldon Point trail. We called this the pirate cove when we were kids. It looks like just the sort of place where the pirates might anchor off shore and row some guy in and leave him there.
One thing that will not be immediately obvious from the photo is just how steep the drop of his here. (And this is some vindication of the theory of the picturesque—it's beautiful from this angle, it would be sublime from the reverse angle.) There is a cliff of about fifty to sixty feet in height that you'd have to be an experienced rock climber to get up, and even then it would be touch and go. The average person would be stuck on the little beach because there is no other way out.
And that is why pirates would leave someone here. There is no way off this beach and it disappears at high tide. When the water came in, their victim would drown. It would be a horrible way to go, just the sort of thing to appeal to a pirate.
Anyway, here goes the test (I'm downloading this off a friends computer adn if it works, a photo should show at the top.)
Hey, that's a ha ha--a nature-made version of an illusion that landscape architects used to make on the grounds of large country estates. Nice shot.
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