A tail in the shallows

By A little animal joy · myAudience

myAudience · AI-generated animal illustration · Original AI-generated illustration; not a documentary photograph; no third-party artwork reproduced.

Half on the bank, half along the water's edge, the crocodile makes a generous curved line through the shallows. The river refuses to stay straight around it. A serious amount of tail, a very small set of ripples.