

Nellie, the main character who is blind, like Estelle, poignantly sees with her mind, as she listens to her brothers' words, silences and sounds of crashing waves, and answers to her many questions on the family beach trip. Never before has the ocean below the Black Mountains along the South African coast been so richly detailed with such authority as in Estelle Condra's See The Ocean.

Just as Estelle draws on her wealth of observational discoveries with the bear, so too does she recall her family trip. Estelle intimately learns of the bear traits, as the drugged Grizzly waits by the Wyoming Game and Fish biologist. What color is it?" Estelle asks, running her fingers through the grizzly bear's dense fur.
