2. Rocking on water

With his arm overboard, Sisoi stares into the distance. His fingers touch the water at each wave the canoe cuts through. To the rhythm of the waves he swings fully familiar back and forth, back and forth. Already as a baby he used to sit on his mother’s lap, while she was paddling the canoe. Taking him with her, she did her daily work: paddling, steering, gathering mussels for food, mooring the canoe. After having dropped him and his father off at the beach, she pushes the canoe back into the sea and dives overboard into the water with the rope in her hand. Under the water she moores the canoe by tying the rope up to one of the sturdy gigantic kelp plants (seaweed). It looks like an underwater jungle. Kelp grows in the crystal clear waters of Tekenica Bay, southwest of Navarino Island. Fortunately Sisoi never has to swim among the fearsome kelp giants since that is only done by his mother or sister. His mother and sister are the only ones who can swim! Sisoi’s thoughts wander off to the underwater world. What adventures do sea urchins, fish and other unknown animals experience there?

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