We finished the wine as we watched the sun go down over the hills, then cleaned up. We stripped down and shifted, shaking out our fur. "Where do you want to go?"

"Let's check out the beach first." We followed the trail down to Sprigg Inlet, chasing each other in the sand and running in the surf. Heading up the other side, we got to a point about a hundred and fifty feet wide before cliffs went down to the next beach, which was slightly larger. I sniffed around the edge, finally laying down at the end of the point above the crashing surf. "This is incredible," I said.

Nicholas...