Westin Roco Ki Beach & Golf Resort
Five hundred years ago, in the
native Taino tradition, the
Indian leaders, the Cacique,
would gather in a majestic place of
honor, and nothing was allowed to
interrupt their privileged view of
paradise.
Their sacred meeting place must
have been here, high atop the thick
fingers of coral landscape that reach
into the sea, gripping the littoral
beauty.
From the promontory, off to the
south, a late-afternoon rainbow arches
over bilious, powder-puff clouds
which seed the soft-blue sky with
mist and drizzle, then leisurely loses
its color as it languorously disappears
into the vespertine stillness.
The sun begins to set. The breeze
softens to a quiet breath. A boat-or
two-dip and bob on a neighborhood
horizon. You peer over the cliff's deep
edge as waves continue to collide on
both sides-washing a beach behind
and carving a cave in the cove in the
front.
As night falls, watch the sun
complete its lazy, diurnal arc and
find repose over the still, western
rim of the gigantic Atlantic. The
languid orb glows and rests a moment
before tucking itself quietly into
the folds beyond the deep, water
horizon. Pulling clouds behind it in
transcendent orbit, it slips into pink,
then orange, then silence.
Then look back at the chiaroscuro
shadows of the sculpted golf course-
now defined by dusk-and imagine
the possibilities.
Here-on the 18th tee box-on
a veritable edge of paradise, awash
in ecological luxury, high above a
relentless ocean pounding a Pantone
palette of cerulean and sapphire-blue
waves, a golf course grows.
This is a view of Paradise, and so
begins another eternity.
The Westin Roco Ki Beach & Golf
Resort sits on the top of the arc of the
splendid, soft, white-sanded beach,
which begins 30-miles south at the
Cap Cana and Punta Cana resorts.