The spiritual center by the sacred spring, and the trip to the beach

I've gone on a school trip to this spiritual center. Its in a sacred place, built around a sacred spring. Its a large center now, with thousands of people living there, but it started out as simply this couple who had had a vision of setting something up, upon visits to the spring. They felt it was a very special site, and it needed honoring. So, the spring was left as a central feature to the place, around which all the other buildings were built. When we arrived we were all shown to our dormitories, and then we went into a big group room, and we were given a choice as to what we wanted to learn while we were there. There were lots of different activities to get involved with; bee keeping, gardening, dancing, art - painting, as well as graffiti styles, music, cooking... About everything you would want to do. This spiritual community placed a very great emphasis on music- there were nice pianos in about every other room, and group music singing happened all the time. I ended up chopping and changing what I wanted to do, - bees, music, art- because there were so many things I wanted to do, and not enough time to do them all. I met the spiritual founder of the place by the spring, and had a brief chat with him. He gave the group a talk about why he had set up the place, and what his original vision had been ; about his vision to bring people together in harmony. ------ I'm now traveling in a car with james and joe, and we are driving to the beach. The road is getting narrower and narrower. Eventually we get stuck between these two cliff faces, because a big boulder has fallen into the road and is blocking the way. We think about moving it, but instead we get out and walk. We walk along the cliff tops and get to a place where we can see the beach and the sea. There is a lot of pollution and rubbish going into the sea via a little steam that runs down the beach. There is a logging company that has been removing the pine forests behind the beach, and it is causing a lot of environmental damage to the beach and surrounding environment. Despite our wishes to go down to the beach we decided it would be best to stay up here on the cliff. It was sad to see all this destruction of a natural habitat going on.