Set for happiness
Two bottles of water, some nuts and an apple…and I’m good to go.The skies are grey, the rocks are grey, the water is grey, the middle of November. No wind and mild.
Alone in the whole fjord… or so it felt until that loud splash behind my back. Turned around and indeed there were signs of disturbed water. Started slowly to circle the place and it surfaced in the beginning of the second loop. Paddled in wide circles for some time, enjoying the company, then continued with the usual rout. And it followed me for some while. Wasn’t the first time a seal followed me, but this one made a splash with its back flippers, when it felt like I haven’t turned for a while to look at it. Seals…
Otherwise, the usual for the season and the place: more swans than Canada geese. One or another V-shaped formation. A lot of young herons: some fishing, some flying both solo and in larger groups. And a bird of prey, that could be a sea eagle.
Returning in the dusk, that part of the day when the sun got down, but it isn’t dark yet; when the last ones are finishing their daily activity and hurrying back to the nest; when everyone is trying to keep quiet… and there’s me paddling carefully for the last kilometre, trying not to disturb this delicate silence…
I consider every occasion as it could be the last one. It feels more special in that way.
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Wasn’t the first time a seal followed me
Sounds like you had a productive viewing of nature in the area.
By the way, how do blue kiwi taste?
That term eludes me in the cooking process
Just to prove i get out