water branches off to the left toward where a tiny creek empties out into the bay, and where there is usually the biggest stretch of beach. taking that path, i found that three or four young people were fast asleep on the sand, though it was after 9 and they were in the full heat of the sun. i figured that if they were sleeping that soundly they probably had not only stayed up most of the night but had sedated themselves with alcohol or drugs. again, i left them alone, and although the dogs and i made a certain amount of noise, none of them seemed to have moved 