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| Birds and The Boat, September 2014. © Artemis Celt |
There's a boat at the lagoon, even though boats are not allowed on the lagoon according to the Shoreline Master Program. The boat looks comfortable, settled in, as though it belongs. The birds love it.
I'd heard rumors of how the boat ended up there and decided to ask someone who knew, unequivocally, how it appeared. Here, verbatim, is the story.
"Sometime
during the last century (not this one, the last one) a couple of
hippies moved to PT in search of peace and love. They settled in on the
hillside above Kah Tai Lagoon. Their first visitors were a couple from
even further up the hill, who had arrived the year before. Turned out
that they (the 2nd couple. no, the first couple. I mean the old timers,
not the newcomers) had a venerable old wooden boat in their basement
that needed a new home (they were not boat people). The very Boat. They
all joined hands, sang a few rounds of Jambalaya, (or We Shall Overcome,
or something) and moved the Boat to the driveway of couple number 2 (I
mean the newcomers) where it served, upside down, for 225 years (that
might be a misprint) as a cheap but worthy shelter for all manner of
treasure and junk.
Time
passed, the Battle of Kah Tai Lagoon was waged and won, dreams came and
went, people were born and people died. Peace and love were found in
moderation, fitting and sufficient for the times. The Boat endured,
unaffected by all that.
