Page 7: Phra Nang Beach in Railay, Thailand--where I took my early morning, jet-lagged swims.
Page 7: Phra Nang Beach from beneath the cliffs.
Pages 6-8: The karst cliffs around Railay look "something like if Gaudi had built them," I wrote.
Page 8: The sunsets in Railay are subsuming. (This photo was not edited.)
Page 10: "The Monk by the Sea," by Casper David Friedrich, represents a turning point, when the ocean became a place for contemplation, rather than only to be feared.
Page 8: The half-moon party on Thailand's Ko Pha Ngan that the cops broke up soon after I arrived.
Page TK. The Brighton seaside in the mid-1800s, in "Brighton: the front and the chain pier seen in the distance," by Frederick William Woledge. Public domain, collection of the Yale Center for British Art.