I woke at 6:10 AM and chose to skip yoga which started at 6:45. I didn't feel
like laying on the cold ground and twisting my body around. Maybe tomorrow will
be different. I went to the lounge and had coffee and a blueberry muffin. When
Libbie came back fro Yoha it was time for breakfast. I ordered a tomato, basil
and Mozzarella Omelet which came with potatoes and bacon. At 10:45 it was time
for Kayak 101. We suited up and got into kayaks on the back on the boat. They
launch 4 at a time. I got into the front of one and Libbie had the steering in
the back. They said that over 6 foot one tall you can't really fit in the back
and control the steering pedals. We seemed to get going OK but then Libbie
lost the pedal with her right foot so we were behind the group. This was OK
since we ended up getting a private lesson from Kate which was great. She's an
enthusiastic young lady. We paddled to shore and saw some star fish and coral
then headed back to the boat. It seemed short but we learned a little about
kayaking. Annie said we all graduated. I doubt it but I feel much better about
it and feel I can manage on my own easily. We had lunch with the two guys from
Asheville who don't seem to be very smart. They said they returned a Go Pro
Camera because it came with too many cables and they were faced with installing
drivers and software. All of it was too much. For lunch we had Tacos Carnitas.
I had a hot sauce and a seasonal Alaskan summer ale beer. It was great.
Dessert was a cupcake with whipped topping and a strawberry. Very nice but way
too much. We barely finished lunch before we had to go out for our shore walk.
it turned out we never did the shore walk and went out amongst the humpback
whales instead. Heather was our captain, a very shapely and pretty twenty
something who had several years in the service including an assignment in
Fayetteville. She said Raleigh was the big city when she was in service in
2006. On the whale watch we had 3 or 4 humpbacks surface next to the boar and
dive under us. We could almost reach out and touch the tails as they dove.
What a sight. They also were pretty loud as they did their blow out of water on
the exhale. Wow! I hope I got good photos. We never did do the shore walk.
This was so much more spectacular.
We went down to cocktail hour and had a glass of Cabernet along with some
Bruschetta. The bruschetta had mozzarella, tomatoes, olives and French bread
toasted. Our entertainment was the young Heather outside with a pipe guiding
the chain into the hold while they pulled the anchor up. She is a very capable
young woman with muscles.
At dinner we sat with Prudy and her grand daughter Elizabeth Ann, a nine year
old in the 4th grade. The Cains joined us. Dinner was seared scallops with
green beans over polenta. We had several bottles of Malbec on the table.
Dessert was unpronounceable, a policetta??? which was a tapioca or vanilla mold
on a plate with fresh peaches. It was quite good.
After dinner we enjoyed a presentation by Sarah of tidal pools and intra tidal
areas of the coastline. Topics covered were the various crustaceans such as the
mussels and then the starfish that eat mussels to keep them in heck. Acorn
barnacles and their reproductive habits. I especially liked her description of
the reproductive appendage and how it's used. There are kids in the audience so
the topic was family friendly. Other critters covered were hermit crabs and the
adornment credit, a crab that decorates it's shell with bits and pieces of rock
and coral that it finds. I'm impressed in general with how knowledgeable the
staff is.