re-grips

Updated: May 14, 2025

Recovering slowly from its fright, and conscious of the necessity for each detail of its equipment and insignia, the lowly crustacean timidly re-grips the coral, and holding it aloft, glides discreetly on its way, invisible when stationary, most difficult to detect when it moves. To see the coral garden to advantage you must pass over it not through it.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Confessions of a Beachcomber