Watersport

 

Scully : I'm not really miserable; it's just that my head gets heavy and small boats aren't terrifically comfortable. Usually I hang my head over the side - especially on the paddleboard - but this orange boat is new to me so we were still working out the best place for me. It has three seats. F gets the back seat. In these pictures Im trying out the little middle seat so that I can lean on F's legs. She later shovelled me into the 'forward hold' but I chose to sit so I was facing her with a pained look in my eyes.

Anything, even plastic orange boats and a red jacket, is better than being left behind.

We did see a large flock of Royal Spoonbills - F said we would avoid disturbing them. That is contrary to terrier nature but I stayed calm on request. 

F was trying to use a 'new to her' waterproof camera but hadn't read the instructions. We ended up drifting back further than we had paddled up before I heard "Ahhhh" - which (along with resumed paddling) made me think she had worked out some basic function (like how to take a photo).

She thought you just press 'on', point it, and press the big button on top.  (It turns out there is an online instruction manual of several hundred pages - guaranteed to induce sleep for the insomniacs among you - and some very complicated combinations of button pressing to achieve the desired 'point and shoot' function. She needed it - everytime she pointed the camera, the kayak would start a graceful but fairly speedy pirouette.)

We also got within a bull's roar (terrier's bark) of some blue herons. They are usually well away before we can photograph them. The low tide had exposed an extra large amount of mud today and both kinds of birds were digging about for tasty morsels.

Low tide suited wading birds but F was not about to wade through mud when we went aground before reaching the top of the bay; so instead of a round trip we had to come back the way we went out and I got to bark at the local builders as they were commuting to work by boat. How cool is that?

F might tell you more about birds and boats and stuff. I was just over the moon when I heard the words 'porridge' and 'WALK'.

yours

Scully