As a child, he worshipped Elvis; per the oft-repeated lore, at age ten, he traded his wooden Wham-O slingshot for a stack of rock 45s, handily exchanging one sort of life for another.
A mile into the bay, it cruised past San Blas's signature totem, a stack of rock sixty feet high that looms like an iceberg and provides a perch for pelicans and blue-footed boobies and a white stone statue of Our Lady of Fátima.
"They tell us to watch out for stacks of rocks, but there's stacks of rocks everywhere here," said Jon, a sergeant who spoke on the condition that his surname not be published.
Sheltered on both sides by stacks of rocks, the sparkling waters resemble a huge natural swimming pool.
Cairns are stacks of rocks that rangers make to show hikers the correct path to take.
There are baskets of hot peppers and bowls of spice, sacks of nuts and stacks of rock candy.
You can return via the Pony Pool and the "Cheese Ring" tor: a stack of weathered rocks piled up like lumps of mozzarella.
The songs, a stack of early rock hip-shakers, including "Blue Suede Shoes," "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lot-ta Shakin' Goin' On," are performed with a vibrant commitment that keeps the sea of gray heads in the audience bobbing, bobbing, bobbing throughout the show's fleet 90-minute running time.
Later, after years of erosion, the arch may fall, leaving the seaward mass of rock to stand alone — one of the strange, chimneylike formations known as stacks.
A few steps away, half a dozen graduate students and volunteers were busy chipping away on stacks of muddy rocks with hammers and chisels.
