Seekajaktour: Umrundung Irlands im Seekajak 2015

People who wonder – they are puzzled
Imagine …
o
… two wild looking guys with dark bags in their hand approaching a house at the
back of the street with children playing in front
Something that resembles a setting from from a wild west movie
kids looking up, realizing the approaching strangers, running back into their houses
the lads getting closer, finally knocking on the door
dark sunglasses, raincoats, sun tanned, unshaved faces:
the mother appears, children hiding behind her protecting back
"Sorry could we get some tab water?" said the guys waving with their black water
bags
the woman smiles and fills them up
the lads then turn , returning to wherever they came from.
o
o
… drizzle and mist coming in, on a remote almost natural slipway, near Seven
Heads
Two guys sitting in wet paddling gear watching out to sea, a fisherman arriving at his
sort of private harbour from a lonesome workday, collecting lobster pots.
Talking to the guys after learning that they are trying to get round he asks: "going
round in a kaaaaayak whaa faaa?"
The answer: " for pleasure"
The reaction: "ooooh ..."
… mist covering Hare island
the ferry already passed by in the direction of Clear island,
a lonely house in the calm of a rainy sunday afternoon,
a soaked person knocking in full gear,
a dog barking,
a man in his mid-seventies getting up,
opening the door.
"sorry to disturb you Sir - is that hare island?"
"yaaah weah yeah camming fraam?"*
"Baltimore"
"Baaaltemaare? aah jeeesus. tjaat is thaat waay"
"We intend to go to Schull, Sir"
"Aaah jeesus. thaat is thaat waay take care aaf thiie swall"
"Thank you sir for your help"
The kayakers get back into their boats and disappeared through the rain into the
direction of long island. You change times a lot! Do you always want to be in the
present when you are talking about what happened with a person?
* you did not understood everything ? neither did we ;-)
© Christian Dingenotto 2015
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