“….near the spur line of Asphalto. Just another place named after a mineral on the map of the world. How many are there? A greater number, I suspect, than named for royalty.”
Michael Ondaatje, “Divisadero”
That thought tickled my fancy for some reason.
Rocks, Waves, Beach 
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