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Wild for the Child ‍
Misty gray cloud nestles onto Lake Jocassee like a feather blanket, settling pollen onto calm water in clumps thick as pancake batter. Visibility is zero. Four boats head into this mysterious void with no landmarks visible to guide the way. The fourth graders onboard, out for a Jocassee Wild Child adventure, are unusually quiet, a tad uncertain, and on this day, nary a one complains about wearing the mandatory life jacket. Then, in the middle of the lake, in the middle of what surely seemed like nothingness, sounds. Hoots. Tremelos. The patter of wide webbed feet running across water. Common loons, eager to be on their way north. What must these youngsters have thought, witnessing an extraordinary migratory event not with their eyes, but with their ears? Surrounded by departing loons, caught up in an experience as foreign to these kids as being on a boat in the middle of a lake in the middle of a dense gray cloud. Were they afraid? NO! Eavesdrop on their excitement here!. ~K