After the Rain
We’ve been looking at the sky for weeks. The odd cloud passes, but they’re hanging on to their rain. After four years
Litterbugs
Sods law. Katharine dropped her sunglasses off the side of the boat – nothing unusual in that (we are cursed with sunglasses )– it happens a lot unfortunately. They were cheap of course but have now become rubbish too (they always were, but now they are officially “litter” on the riverbed
he probably wouldn’t tolerate the unpleasant smell of us
Its 0430, not a time we normally rise but this morning we have an appointment with the doctor in Montevideo to get some xrays on my leg, and that involves a 4 hour journey beginning now. We prise ourselves from our cosy bed, row our numb bodies to the shore, tether the dinghy and somehow …
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Wildlife ‘Soup’
Sooty shearwaters again this morning. Their rafts stretch for miles into a misty horizon. Hardly a breath of wind ripples the olive water. Lista Light skewers the hordes. The sound of pattering webbed feet as they scramble to take flight from their moving air field. Saltwater beads cascade in their wake. Their slim wings almost …
The Sooties
They glide in a constant stream passed the boat. Hundreds, thousands amass, reconfigure and disperse in sinuous effortless gyrating eddies. Like a heat haze, but the air is chill.
‘…even educated fleas do it . . . lets do it, lets . . . fall in love . . .!’
It’s mid summer’s day in the Southern Hemisphere and at 44 degrees south of the equator, that means a full 16 hours of sunlight. It’s a curious day in the calendar, where the sun’s zenith is at its furthest south, cultures around the world are full of stories and celebration. In Chile in means the …
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Something from the deep…..
I had never been too concerned about the underworld; below our floating house. Our ‘cellar’ can stretch for miles in the deep ocean. It can contain giant octopi; a blue whale (the largest animal on earth) and some of the tiniest glittering life forms; like a galaxy up-side-down. Although, I must admit, when Dave was …