[Microblog] Transient Tales

My friend Sarah is leaving, FOREVER, so we went canoeing.  On the trip, we saw some geese and their goslings:

Camera phone's are awesome at far shots- oh, wait

And we saw a MALE MERGANSER!

Photo courtesy of Wikipedia user Mdf

I also applied my olympic athletic abilities, to help push us back to the dock in 25 minutes (we'd taken 1h10m to head out before realising the place closed in 25m), but then there were three of us, so maybe it wasn't just all me.