Nature is a great story teller if you have the chance to listen.
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Set against the dazzling backdrop of an ocean in one hundred shades of grey, the storks are riding the thermals once more, gaining the height needed for that long downward glide to far African lands.
Between them and their destination are the crystal waters of the straights, flanked in legend by the Pillars Of Hercules.
Nowadays in more prosaic times they are the setting to some of the greatest animal journeys on Earth.
From the southward movement of half a billion birds to the great dispersal of breeding whales from the Mediterranean, these acts of the Great Mother are ones that Hercules himself would have been proud.
This is nature on the grandest of stages telling the greatest of stories.
Photos: The Mediterranean near Gualdalmesi. Courtesy of the author.