Changing of the guard
Friday, 26 October 2012
The Indian name for this place, I swear, must have been something like “Rapids with herons and turtles downstream.”
Indeed, the post-Colonials who dammed this stretch must have been channeling (ahem) ancient times, when they named their flow-stopper Eagle & Phenix Dam (two majestic birds of reality and myth).
Of course, when they blew the dam, archaeologists…monitored…what was revealed….
And now, six months after the dynamite (or whatever they used), we saw many turtles, including one with a shell more than a foot long, and herons, including one that nabbed and swallowed a feesh right in front of us, just downstream of the old dam site (or dam old site).