A few days ago, Astrid and I had one of the most spectacular photography sessions we have ever had. All of the stars just happened to line up perfectly, the biggest star being a very ambitious otter.

We had been driving along a local waterway on the lookout for bald eagles and hoping to maybe get lucky and spot an otter.

About mid afternoon Astrid said, “Hang on I may have seen an otter back there.” I turned around so we could have a better look and sure enough there was an otter swimming close to shore. Then we realized not only was it an otter, this otter was wrestling with a huge carp that it was trying to get up onto the ice shelf.

The carp is almost as big as the otter. 

Now, we have had some experience with this particular family of otters before and we knew that they are very skittish. We knew that........

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