The North our home, the sea our friend #1
In Latin, that’s ‘Boreas domus, mare amicus’. It’s the motto of Orkney.
Isn’t the sea amazing?
It’s the power and the fragility, the permanence and the transience, the intensity of the colour and the monotony of the monochrome, which gets me every time.
The sea can be a friend, but only to the wary.
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