yes, indeed. another incredible morning. i feel like cat stevens. going to burst into "morning has broken" at full throttle any moment now. cat stevens. whatever happened to him anyway? rumours of his going off into anonymity in an eastern monastery or something, yes? well, i hope he's happy.
yesterday's kayaking trip certainly made us happy. we loaded the boats into the truck, packed a lunch and drove down to assateague island national seashore.. we wanted to explore the inlets and marshes on the back side of the island, so we put in from one of the canoe rental areas. we paddled around for about 45 minutes to start with.....as it's been almost a year since we did this we didn't want to overdo our old muscles right away. we found a darling herd of ponies, saw a few birds, saw lots of people doing what is a new sport to me......a kind of windsurfing using a board and a kind of huge kite thing. i don't know, a sort of parasailing. if anyone reads this and knows this activity, please give me more info. anyway, it looked like a lot of fun but with the imperative of serious upper body strength.
we came ashore, ate our lunch while fending off the seagulls, then set back out into the water. this time we really found the area i wanted to explore and spent over an hour in peace and quiet. no yelling windsurfers, not even any other paddlers. lots of birds out in this area, lots in inlets and outlets and little marshy trails. yesterday was our exploratory voyage. next time we know where we want to start. we didn't have field glasses with us, a big mistake. we're too afraid of dropping them in the water! so i want to look for waterproof glasses, stop being such doofuses about taking binoculars out where we can see birds!
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