秋水長天《サルルン展望台》

將單車騎回塘路駅前，再前往距離車站約2公里的サルボ展望台、サルルン展望台(Sarubo & Sarurun viewpoint)。停妥單車，映入眼簾是沿著山徑上百階的步道，有些疲累的雙腿，還是繼續走。

森林裡，傳來窸窸窣窣的聲音，哇，原來是花栗鼠(chipmunk)在樹林裡覓食，可愛的模樣，跳躍的小舞步似在挑逗我的相機，「嘿嘿，你抓得住我?...」小傢伙最後還是被我的相機逮著了。



奮力爬上了小山崗，來到岔路口，往左530公尺是到サルルン展望台，往右240公尺是サルボ展望台。



秋天的午后，一個人漫步在濃密的森林裡，落葉鋪滿了沿路小徑，曠野中，只有旅人的腳步聲。



塘路湖(Lake Toro)的前身是大海，遠古以前的大海經河沙沖積遺留下來的海跡湖，也是釧路濕原中最大的湖泊，夏天最適宜賞鳥，划乘獨木舟探索濕原，就近觀察豐富的生態鳥獸保護區。

穿越一片森林來到最高的展望台，視野豁然開朗，遠眺塘路湖周圍點點分佈的沼澤、湖泊，遼闊的大地，披上秋天的色彩，綿綿延延，伸向遠方，「依舊是秋潮向晚天 ，依舊是蘆花長堤遠。」



也許是匆匆趕路，也許是忘情於山水之間，在森林裡的岔路口，向左走後，居然忘了向右走。

想起了這首詩.....

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost

我把另一條路留給未來，青青河畔草時，也許，我會再來。


2008-10-21-02

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