Biking along behind St. Vincent's Hospital around 6:00 P.M., I was suddenly amazed to see hundreds of palm sized mullet leaping into the air and heading south toward NAS. I have seen individual mullet leap many times and my son has always told me the mullet are trying to get away from something that is trying to eat them. This scene did not feel like the mullet were trying to escape a a predator. The school resembled a corps de ballet. The movements were somehow synchronized. The fish arced into the air and rose again a few feet downstream. Then the entire school slalomed through the crab pots and headed south. Each fish was rising and falling and making a hand clapping sound as it hit the silver water. Overhead, the cartwheeling sea gulls provided a type of motorcycle escort for the aquatic parade.
Once again, bike riding has provided me with a sensory sensation I would have missed inside the faithful Buick.
All I can say is... Amen.
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