What a beautiful piece. While in our family we might say we've not been blessed with faith, the river more than once has offered up a spiritual epiphany.

Just yesterday, while the fish were not forthcoming, a platypus swam up to the bank beneath my feet and fossicked there for about two minutes before swimming off. Then on the drive home, the smallest echidna I had ever seen walk out onto the road in front of me, I passed it unharmed.

If not from the gods, at least messengers from the earth.