Dear you,

Hope everything is going well with that thing you are dealing with.

Last night away.

Took my dog for a walk around the marina after dinner last night. Trawlers, deep fishing hire boats and some high end cruisers. One or two sailboats, in need of a sailor.

Out and back on the jetty when my attention was taken by two boys laying on their bellies, reaching down slapping the water.

It was dark, and I thought they were messing with some fish. As my eyes adjusted, I could see it was a big fish…no wait, it was a giant stingray!

I kid you not. As big as a dining room table, and…. what?!?

One, two, three, four…..five. There were five of these things. Magnificent leather plastic discs with long-sword tails. Deep speckle spangled grey on top with white undersides glimpsed as they folded and flipped their sine-wave wings.

Gliding smooth and effortlessly over and under and around and I’m pretty sure they were playing with the two boys, who were super excited in that loud whispering kind of way.

I watched for a quite while until, at some secret stingray signal, they turned and flew off into deep water like alien motherships into the night.

What an encounter. I’ve never seen anything like it.