The Reason Why

There are a limited number of places to watch the sunrise on Back Bay - from land. But if you have a boat, the opportunities are endless. There are only two humble ramps from which to launch, but other than during duck season, there is seldom a crowd. 

If a sunrise is beautiful, twilight will be spectacular. In order to witness that most peaceful and glorious unveiling of the day, I must have the boat in the water at least an hour before natures grand performance. I prefer an hour and a half. To accomplish that, I leave the house at least two hours prior to whatever time Google told me the sun would rise.  And, of course, I need to tack on an extra fifteen minutes for a 7-11 coffee stop and ten more to let the dogs out. Yeah, my sunrise experiences start somewhere around the third hour after midnight. 

Some days, I question myself as if I don’t know the reason why I put myself through it. I suppose, at some point, you have to ask yourself how you ended up here. But I know the answer. I’m drawn to the water, I always have been. As a boy fishing a pond or rowing on a fjord in Norway to pursuing Cobia off the Virginia coast, stalking Blue Ridge brookies or chasing stripers all night in the cold of winter - I hear her call. It all began with fishing, but now it’s so much more. I get as much joy out of watching otters hunting, listening to the marsh rustling in the breeze, and sunsets on a river as I do landing an enormous bull red drum. Perhaps more. The water is my element, she is always calling. Buffett may as well have been writing about me when he said “mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call.”

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