September 9, 2018. Western Head, Nova Scotia. The Sound of the Se.

Today the water is glistening in the sun but yesterday it was flat and shiny as ice. The ocean appeared to be a Lake. Except the sound from the sea never ends. The waves keep coming in, a force of nature that never stops. Even though the water is still, the sounds from the sea keep coming. Yesterday I sat on the deck listening to the sound as I watched the waves lap the shore. The first aound I could hear was the seals singing from the rocks in front of Gill’s house. They yelp and moan. When the wind is up, we can not hear them but yesterday I could hear them loud and clear. They are noisy. We have no idea what they see saying. Then the small waves break on the shore making a crash for such a small wave. The noise comes when the wave breaks whether right on th shore or further out Peeole speak of the wave crashing into the shore, which is exactly what I hear. The next sound is when the wave rushed back to sea. So I heat two different sounds, in and out, in and out and never stopping. But this next sound is the most interesting, which is the sound of the rocks rolling against each other as the water retreats from the shore. In thousands of years, we will be sand beach, when here we have a cobble beach. The rocks rolling aganst each other week after week making a lovely sound, quite different from the water sounds coming from the waves. When the wind is up and the waves are high, we expect noise from the sea, but when the sea is quiet, the sound is muted but never silent. This force of nature never stops, twice a day coming in and going out. The sound is wonderful and we will miss it when we leave. One of the charms of living at Western Head is to hear the sounds of the sea. I