Jill and Gerard's Seachange

A Walk to Remember!!

Gerard and I have taken to a nightly walk, last night we checked out a few houses with their Christmas lights on. Not many really. Ours are out the back of the house, so you probably would only see them if you were coming in by boat!!!

Anyway tonight we decided to go up our street and then down to the waiter's edge. Pitch black except for the mass of stars in the sky, the milky way was amazing!! Looking up to the black mass with all these tiny bright lights is just beautiful. I suggested we go onto the jetty and just see if we can hear any dolphins tonight! Yeah right says Gerard as if they would be there right now! Well we stood in the darkness and just listened to the silence. We could hear fish jumping out of the water and plopping back down, mozzies flying around and the odd swan squawking in the distance. There were about ten swans settled down for the night on the sand bank and one of them suddenly stood up and flapped its wings, could only see the white feathers moving in the darkness. The silence was entrancing and we stood motionless on the jetty for some time. We decided to go home and as I turned around and took a few steps, I heard that swoosh noise, sshhh Gerard listen and sure enough, they were there in the water not far from us, we could not see them, but could hear them so clearly, there were two groups of them coming up for air and going back down into the water, then silence and suddenly they were back and then far away, we even heard a loud splash as if one had leapt out of the water. Will have to take the torch down with us next time!! As the sounds were moving away from us a car came into the car park and stopped at the far end. We walked up that way back to the house and there was this bloke walking in the water with a torch, a large tin tied to his waist and a spear!! he was looking for Flounder!!! and within seconds he caught one and then a prawn!!! One never knows what one will see or hear when going out for a walk!!! Oh well tomorrow is another night......

posted by Jill @ 11:26 pm