Bobbers do inspire some random pondering. Anne Bobber took a walk this evening to see the new moon . Some intrepid swimmers and divers were still in the water one of whom said he chased a huge squid.

These are waters that we swim in very regularly, with no idea that we might have close encounters with much sea life especially something squid-like and huge.

Some delving into Squid Fishing websites does suggest that squid are attracted to the piercing clear light of a cloudless New Moon. So the swimmer may not have been mistaken. But that does also make me ponder that squid of all sizes must be there while the bobbers bob, which is not something we have ever given much thought to. And maybe we shouldn’t.

Says one squid to another.

“I was in Firestone Bay for the new moon, and I saw a huge bobber”