Imagine hovering motionless, inches over intertidal sea life – purple starfish, orange anemones, iridescent brown kelp – suspended on a window of liquid glass, when you notice a bow wave coming off your kayak, and the occasional jellyfish streaming past. You are riding effortlessly on a river of tidal current, as you hover motionless over the shoal.
It’s the kind of water where you hold your paddle blade back to your side or over the deck to prevent ripples caused by water droplets, lest they disturb your view of the wonders below.
The kind of morning that is so quiet, you know a seagull is passing over not from sight, but because you can hear his wings on the air.
A Window of Opportunity -
Where you feel the sun’s warmth on your back and you smell the steam gently rising over the tide-drenched rocks.
It is time to live in the now. For if you wait, hoping to come back later, the magic will be gone as onshore breezes begin to obscure the surface and the windows will no longer be there.
(***these thoughts were going through my head as I paddled around Sucia Island last week ~ My 3rd visit there this year! Anyway, I thought I’d come home and try a creative writing project and this is the result.)
