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🗓️ 6 May 2025
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0:00.0 | This is Bird Note. |
0:05.4 | Sailor and artist Freckin Morgan circumnavigated the globe solo. |
0:11.4 | Alone on the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, he welcomed the companionship of a swallow-tailed gull. |
0:18.6 | There was this bird that came to visit me in the morning, kind of flew around me, and then flew |
0:24.2 | off, but in the evening it came back. |
0:27.0 | And I remember coming up a number of times at night to check my bearings in the set of the |
0:31.8 | sails, and the bird was flying off of the bouts day in front of the boat like a little shadow of moonlight floating back |
0:40.0 | and forth almost all night long and this happened for a number of days in a row there's this |
0:45.5 | loneliness that happens when you're far at sea and i felt i had a companion i felt i had a friend |
0:52.6 | i tried to let it know that it was welcome, |
0:55.3 | as much as you can, when you talk to a bird at sea. I always expressed my happiness to see him, |
1:00.5 | and it was particularly comforting presence. |
1:06.9 | Reckon saw other birds on his voyage, too. |
1:09.5 | They were friends in the middle of the void. |
1:12.8 | Amazing visitors that I couldn't understand |
1:14.8 | how they managed to get 1,500 miles from the nearest piece of rock |
1:18.7 | and survive, but obviously they were more ancient mariners |
1:22.6 | than I would ever imagine being. |
1:24.6 | Whether I made those birds as happy as they made me, |
1:27.1 | I'll have no idea. |
1:30.0 | But they did make me very happy. |
1:34.6 | You can see some of Morgan's paintings of his voyage on our website, birdnote.org. |
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