California Cove Blessed With Nature's Beauty Reels from its Stench

This article, written by Ian Lovett, tells the harsh reality of living by the sea. In San Diego, the new environmental regulations have closed off a cove called La Jolla. The article begins with beautiful sea-side imagery, only to be disrupted by horrible olfactory descriptions of sea gull feces disrupting the natural beauty. The opinions regarding the smell vary, since some believe that it is a natural effect of living close to sea life. Others, such as tourists, see it as a disturbance to the thousands they spent on a California vacation. Due to harsh environmental rules, it isn't permitted to wash the bird poop off the rocks, so, the only hope for the suffering population surrounding La Jolla cove is to wait for rain to naturally wash the poop away. Lovett uses nature olfactory imagery to show the contrasting sights and smells seen in La Jolla cove, and makes his argument more effective by juxtaposing the two to demonstrate the effect the smell has on the people around the nature.