Terns at sunrise
6 a.m. and my thoughts again have turned A few days later I repeat the experience, inner glow, and then at 4 a.m. I am treated
to food…and sleep. As I turn to leave, a but this time I travel from east to west to the sight of the arctic tern colony
haunting disembodied sound reaches me and the conditions are very different - the saturated by intense colour as the sun rises
and I realise that the seal is singing his still, skies are clear but the wind is 30 mph. I over the island of Westray behind me. I
sad song, and I am almost overwhelmed. photograph the North Sea after sunset, realise that I have seen Orkney at its most
rocking and rolling and with a mysterious magical and I am changed.
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