This was it.I could see it in front of me.The stream was ending.I had to jump.The strong current was blinding.The mischievous drops of water were going against me.I picked up speed.Flapping my tail fin one hundred times a second.Propelling forward faster and faster.I jumped.Elegantly soaring through the air.Slipping right through a grizzly bear’s jaws.I could see the open sky above,and the rushing water crashing below.Then just like that, I gracefully slipped through the quietand frigid waters.My adventure was over.

Lake Forest Park,
Washington