Holiday lights & rush
BY NQ
December 2019
A lovely & safe Season to all, and we’ll see you back on nqonline in January 2020.
A lovely & safe Season to all, and we’ll see you back on nqonline in January 2020.
IN MAY 2014, two blue whale carcasses washed up on the beaches of Trout River and Rocky Harbour. There are only 250 estimated in the North Atlantic, perhaps 20,000 worldwide.
It’s a tricky thing, leaving St John’s. And here, I’m talking solely in terms of travelling logistics. Sure, people do it all the time – they board planes, or maybe…
Suddenly ripples started appearing on the large screen, like you see on the surface on of a pond at the beginning of a downpour. On two of the smaller screens the tide tugged unfurled waves back out into the bay; another showed mint-coloured lichen on a grey rock; a third played water gurgling in and out of a tide pool. I could feel the bunny-rabbit thump of blood coursing through my heart and it was correlating with the steady tick in the soundscape.