Wheeling Gull Isle when life’s moving too fast, we can make this dream last

He’s done it. He’s leaving the den.

He turns his head to give home one final look, but he isn’t scared.

Caracal moseys along and Judah doesn’t mind the pace, it gives him plenty of time to look around. He feels powerful being up so high! He can see everything- and what a world there is to see!

Clouds! Streaking across the sky, and pale birds cawing overhead! Fluffy green bushes! A grove of big tall trees! Little white blossoms that blow in the- wind! There’s so much wind! It flutters his cheeks and tickles his ears and he bristles with laughter!

“DADDY! LOOK!” He vibrates excitedly against his father’s neck and swings out his paw towards some unfathomable oddity: it is the first time he sees the sun in its true brilliance (though he figures out pretty quickly you can’t look directly at it).

He points everything out to Daddy! The big stoney pillars down in the ocean, a trail of quails that nearly cross their path, a pile of sparkling salmon-colored pebbles, and greenish ones too, the water and how it rolls against the cliffs and glimmers in the sunshine. There is so much color! So much movement! So much life!

Every new discovering elicits a laugh or an “oooo” or a “WOW!” Each one is just as impressive as the first!

No wonder Dinny and Mal wanted to go- he was starting to get it now!

And once he made friends with Leviathan, he could go along with them!

“How God may all dis Papa!!!”