Some Chicken, some Hen

 I could not help but (badly) paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill's famous "Some Chicken - Some Neck" speech this afternoon (September 29)*. I was awaiting some ships (see previous post) at the very southernmost tip of the Halifax Peninsula in Point Pleasant Park.

Just off the tip there are some very jagged rocks that show at low water and are sometimes concealed at high water. Many boaters have met with grief by sailing too close to shore in the area. Because there are several rocks of varying size, all in a row, they have been named Hens and Chicks or Hen and Chickens Shoal. 

Despite appearances today they were not home to Hens, nor Chickens, but to a gathering of at least three seals. One, seen in profile did appear somewhat bird-like, but there was little doubt that they were not avians, but mammals, basking in some warm sun as seals are wont to do.

*Sir Winston uttered the phrase in the Canadian House of Commons on December 30, 1941, in response to a sneering jibe from the future Vichy France that Germany would invade Britain and "ring its neck like a chicken".

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