Walking at night Trail Wood

Trail Wood #91 Earl Plato
Edwin Teale and wife, Nellie, were naturalists for all seasons and for all day - even night time. I haven’t meandered around a camp site at night for years. Apparently the Teales did their nocturnal walks on a regular basis. hey are still at the pond when we read:
“ Across the pond when we switch off beams, we see starlight reflected in the black mirror of the water. A fish leaps sending a circle of ripple rings hurrying over the surface, setting the images of stars and constellations tumbling and gyrating where they pass. Once we hear a low splash and then make out a long V expanding in the wake of a swimming muskrat.”