Driftwood's Coastal Soul

Driftwood was found entangled in fishing gear, a young harbor porpoise exhausted and cut by monofilament line. Rescued and brought to a rehabilitation pool, she was too injured to survive in the wild. She became a research and education animal. Her pool was kept dark and quiet, as porpoises are sensitive. She'd swim slow, silent laps, her small dorsal fin cutting the water. The pool is just still water now, missing her soft puff of breath at the surface, her smooth, gray back arching as she dove, and the rare, fleeting eye contact that felt like a profound connection.