Lynx

Eight years ago my wife, my little son and me we strolled in the rice-fields of Comporta village, very close to the rice museum. It was a summer day, windless, sunny and hot. The rice-fields were very green and nice, nearby, in the canals, there were reeds in great amount almost a little jungle! Storks clattered its beaks. Crows seemed, so cunning they were, to set a challenge to us. Many and many different birds they chirped in the rice-fields. Far away, to the left, the wild sand-hills had emerald pine trees and all species of savage animals. Far ahead we could see the Sado river estuary, its blue calm water, famous with the dolphins of this watercourse. Above us, we saw the cloudless amazing cerulean sky. The dustless land road we strolled, it was very regular and in the water canals, always very close to us, we could see and hear the charming frogs, how nice green speckled skins they had, and also, many shoals of fish, how fine they turned at the same time and in the same way! The rice plant, new to me, was my special inquiry and examination. I attentively observed that the rice grain grew in a little stick and the plant had one foot of length and it was in one inch of water.

We walked peacefully, quietly, slowly, inspired in this paradisiacal landscape but God didn’t want so much peace and ahead of us my wife and me we saw what put our hearts in bounds! A big animal crossed the land road so suddenly, so quickly, in a running that I threw myself to my little son to protect him! It was a lynx!! A big savage animal! We came back immediately!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_lynx