Standing on the bridge today, I spent my usual few moments just watching the water go by, observing what it carried. Near the point of the inverted V of the new underwater rock and gravel patch lay a clump of some kind of weed. Next to it I saw an orange, floating near the bottom. In the gentler current caused by this stretch of shallows, the orange seemed caught in an eddy. I watched it move a few inches one way, then another, and then it seemed to break free, pulled downstream.
Then, after a few feet, the orange turned around and headed back to the weed clump. I had been wrong. Whatever it was, it was not an orange. From the height of the bridge it looked round and orange. Oranges do not swim upstream, however. Over the next several minutes, I watched the "orange" circle the weed patch, stopping here and there. Was it eating something? Was it some kind of very compact fish, i.e., lacking both head and tail?
Can anybody help me with this?
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