Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Amanda Ewen-Nolan Trail


Nolan Trail

A slab of concrete edged by a worn iron fence, overlooking onto the river.  The water is brown and not very nice looking but so full of life.  There were hundreds maybe even thousands of small fish. The fish weren’t beautiful or colorful but the fact that there was such life in such an urban place surprised me.  When I stepped up onto the concrete overlooking the water the last thing I expected to see was fish.  They were all swimming into some kind of urban tunnel. Why would the fish be fighting to swim into the tunnel when they had the whole river to swim into? The whole time that I was watching them swim they never got closer to their goal of making it into the tunnel, however, they kept going, never stopping.  This experience stood out to me out of all the life we had seen on the Nolan trail because it was so relatable to our society.  The fish had a whole river to swim in but they were fighting to become a part of the urban environment.  We also do this.  We have so much land to explore but we only want to settle down in the urban environments. 

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