Sighting

Today is the first anniversary of the day we took legal possession of the Captain’s House. The tide was high this morning when we got up. As I was performing the daily ritual of morning stretches, I glanced out and saw a seal swimming lazily off our shore. But in the distance I noticed something else. It was a large creature cresting and diving repeatedly further out in the water. I watched transfixed. It had a fin. 

Back and forth it came for a very long time. I suspect it was our first sighting of a dolphin. We have heard they do appear from time to time. Of course, when I finally went to get my camera and had it at the ready, I stood on our deck for a very long time in the cool breeze. I hoped that I might catch it in the lens. Eventually I did. But it was not one of its more fulsome arches. And it appears but a speck in the resulting photo. I waited… and waited. An eagle flew by.