paddleboard

paddleboarding

it turns out

is really fun!

not as hard as it looks either

especially when the water is dead calm

like it was yesterday

it’s good exercise too

if you bend your knees

and once the board is moving

the momentum helps keep it going straight

it feels good to get balanced

I paddled close to shore

by a narrow strip of pebbled beach

I floated through clear green water

and saw the sea bottom 30 feet below me

I crept up on a pelican

who was sitting on a rock

I listened to the water

lapping against the shoreline

I felt alive and strong

and maybe the best part 

(as my friend ted said)

is it’s almost as much fun to fall off

as it is to stay on!

monday 22 february

lent 2016
Benure's Bay, Norman Island