In Which I go on a Marvellous Expotition

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This is what I was doing at about 11:00 this morning



I went out kayaking today with my friend sheilap and her partner Jo. It was amazing. We put in at Esquimalt lagoon and went on about a 4 hour paddle through Esquimalt harbour. We stopped for lunch at Cole Island., a historic site that I had hitherto not known anything about. I am very very tired but extremely proud of myself that I was able to sustain that amount of activity and hold my end up in the paddling.

En route, we saw a multitude of wildlife, including ospreys hovering, looking for prey, herons, a turkey buzzard, a kingfisher, oystercatchers, Canada Geese, lots of other sea birds, seals and a deer and its faun. There is pictorial documentation

Here is a baby seal - it's not as sharp as I would have liked, but you get the idea



These are the ruined buildings - the remains of a Royal Navy munitions storage area - on Cole Island



Mum and baby



Fisgard Lighthouse, with Olympic Mountains in the background



As you can see, it was a blazingly beautiful day. My cheeks are warm from the sun and I'm buzzing with bliss. It was a wonderful time.

Comments

[egretplume.livejournal.com]

It is so beautiful!

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

This is magnificent country. Someday I really need to visit it.

[marri.livejournal.com]

That deer has the daintiest damn deer-face I've ever seen.

I want to kayak to that island now :'(

[lidocafe.livejournal.com]

It just showed up! In fact, I did look this morning, but it it was not available yet, and actually appeared well after Brianna's last post even though hers has a later time than yours. That happens sometimes when I post youtube videos--it takes them a while to show up. Anyway--great pictures. It was such a beautiful day, glad you got to do something scenic.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

How peculiar! Must be something to do with the RSS feed, but I'm not expert enough to know what or why it's doing that. Or perhaps bandwidth, if it's things with big payload. But, dunno...

[lidocafe.livejournal.com]

Haha. Just got the Pooh reference.

[wendymc.livejournal.com]

Wow, sounds like a fantastic time! I've been intrigued by kyaking lately, but too busy to do anything about it.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

It's really fun, and a great upper-body workout :)