I visited Chillika Lake at the end of my residency in Odisha, India. Chillika Lake is the largest coastal lagoon in India and the second largest brackish water lagoon in the world. The Indian humidity gives the lake an other worldly haze, making it difficult to pinpoint where lake ends and sky begins. I spent a day being poled along in a Nauka, a boat favoured by the fishermen. We stopped at small islands and made friends with the shy Irrawaddy dolphin.