What a Site!

What a Site 

“But the Dove could find no place to set its feet . . . so it returned to Noah in the ark. . . He waited seven more days and again sent out the Dove from the ark. When the Dove returned to him in the evening,  there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf” Genesis 8:9-11                  

It was a very nice morning on the sixth day at our new house on Castnet Rd on Johns Island.  We were just sitting down for breakfast when all of the sudden there seamed to be a pair of almost every kind of animal in the creek.  The fish were already there when the sea birds started fishing.  Pelicans, hooded mergansers, cormorants, blue and green herons, great egrets, and marsh wrens flocked like children at a birthday party.  Out of no where, a pair of dolphins wizzed in and astonishingly beached schools of fish along the banks to devour.

My brother and I excitedly hopped into our pants and raced to the cock to see the site.  As we got out to the dock, two playful otters came around a bend and looked at Peter John and me.  I was amazed because I had never seen them that close before.  Peter John hurried back to tell our parents.  The otters climbed onto a floating dock.

Then two bald eagles  soared overhead to hunt for prey below.  And that was when Mom quoted Genesis 8:9-11 in her daily devotion and found the new name for our house, “The Ark.”