Bolinas Lagoon

Point Reyes area

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Driving past Bolinas Lagoon, we stopped to try to take it all in.

Taking in the lagoon from a tiny point of land beside the road.

And then we started to look over the details.

Incoming fog on the south end of the lagoon.

The cliffs and houses on the far side of the water.

And then there are the even smaller details. Out in the middle, there are shallows and out on the shallows there are animals.

A collection of mammals, probably harbor seals, on one sand spit.

And they are quite a big collection.

A collection of birds, mostly pelicans with sea gulls, on another sand spit.

Nearby, there is a fishing heron to watch. It comes up with a fish more often than not when its head darts toward the water.

Here it comes, water up to its ankles. Well, those are ankles.

One of a few fish captures as the heron stalks through the water.

And the heron walks on.

And that was life on the lagoon in that moment. Well, except for the captured fish.




©2017 Valerie Norton
Posted 1 October 2017