Prehistoric sea

The sea was extraordinary this morning. The gentle off-shore breeze made tiny flicks on the surface of the water. 

The tide was low, so we walked for a hundred yards before the sand sloped away.

When finally I was submerged to my chin, the sea, with thousands of flicks, not big enough to make white horses, looked like the skin of a giant scaly animal, gently breathing.  

I love that. 

Face away from the land and watch the waves.

A cormorant and a gull were mucking around much further out. 

There's something about a cormorant that I think looks just like a pterodactyl. It's the angle of the wings, the ungainly elbows, or the length of its neck. 

That shore-less view, with the sun just rising, might well have been the same for a million years.