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.