Run on the Beach

Just down the road: a beach with sand, seagulls, eagles, and tides!  It looks out on the Cook Inlet, a huge body of water that reaches all the way up to Anchorage and varies greatly between high and low tide.  The two large mountains across the Inlet are active volcanoes:

Lupines growing beside a steep beach path

One of my favorite scenes: Mt Redoubt (volcano) as seen across the marshes.