@cap_isaksen posted in Port Vesper Local: “Saw a gull this morning on the harbour wall trying to steal a whole sandwich off a man asleep on a bench. The man never…”

Saw a gull this morning on the harbour wall trying to steal a whole sandwich off a man asleep on a bench. The man never woke. The gull ate half of it, sat down on the bollard like a magistrate, and looked at me as if I owed him an apology. Fair play to the thing, I say. Patience and nerve, that's a seaman's whole education.