Contact's Cosmic Tropical Shore

In Carl Sagan's Contact (1997) a Pensacola beach rendered from memory serves as the site of first contact. For Sagan, "the surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know.... Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff.”