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(because other things distracted me from posting about it at the time...)
Kayaking on Monday with the TSA Adventure Club (aka The Ladies from Work)* was fun! :) They bus you from the store, provide kayaks, paddles, water sneakers and flotation vests, and have two guides who take you out and might even give you impromptu tour guide talks if you get marooned by the tide. ;) All for $12. And then you get a $12 voucher against doing the half-day course, so it'd be $37. I think in that one they teach more skills. Anyway, it was a perfect day, and we saw Canada geese and some other kinds of stalky water birds in two different shades of gray/buff, and cows - you have to go through a cow pasture to get to the water. (I'm not sure, but I think they are the beef steers belonging to Wolfsneck Farm, so they're soon going to be organic steaks. I base this conjecture entirely on not having noticed any udders. The guides didn't mention this, I think they're afraid it will depress people.) And we got the castle tower explained to us.
This castle tower is one of those weird things that attracts comment, because it's just sitting in the middle of a residential area, in someone's back yard. Apparently it's the last remnant of one of those grand hotels from back in the day, and the person who owns the land now wants to tear it down, but he's prohibited from doing so because it's a landmark for all the ships in the area and is on all the marine maps.
And afterward we went to Gritty's and had a beer and some food and talked. :)
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*Slinky (Mistress of the Night) suggested a kayaking trip, GK brought in info on the Walk-On Adventures, Al McL got there early and signed us all up and paid in advance, and other attendees were CF and CW. They're a good bunch to go out with. :)
Kayaking on Monday with the TSA Adventure Club (aka The Ladies from Work)* was fun! :) They bus you from the store, provide kayaks, paddles, water sneakers and flotation vests, and have two guides who take you out and might even give you impromptu tour guide talks if you get marooned by the tide. ;) All for $12. And then you get a $12 voucher against doing the half-day course, so it'd be $37. I think in that one they teach more skills. Anyway, it was a perfect day, and we saw Canada geese and some other kinds of stalky water birds in two different shades of gray/buff, and cows - you have to go through a cow pasture to get to the water. (I'm not sure, but I think they are the beef steers belonging to Wolfsneck Farm, so they're soon going to be organic steaks. I base this conjecture entirely on not having noticed any udders. The guides didn't mention this, I think they're afraid it will depress people.) And we got the castle tower explained to us.
This castle tower is one of those weird things that attracts comment, because it's just sitting in the middle of a residential area, in someone's back yard. Apparently it's the last remnant of one of those grand hotels from back in the day, and the person who owns the land now wants to tear it down, but he's prohibited from doing so because it's a landmark for all the ships in the area and is on all the marine maps.
And afterward we went to Gritty's and had a beer and some food and talked. :)
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*Slinky (Mistress of the Night) suggested a kayaking trip, GK brought in info on the Walk-On Adventures, Al McL got there early and signed us all up and paid in advance, and other attendees were CF and CW. They're a good bunch to go out with. :)
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