John Aitchison enjoys a journey at dawn by kayak across a sea loch in western Scotland in search of the early signs of spring. He travels through the darkness following a trail of light caused by the reflections of the moon in the calm water. His journey takes him across the loch and along the far shoreline before he heads for an island and then returns home. As the sun rises he encounters seals and otters, watches shelduck chasing one another, listens to curlew and skylarks, and catches sight of white-fronted geese, which will soon leave and head to Greenland
