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Monday | May 9th

May 20, 2011 by  
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I lead a hike originally for 12 but there was a mix up and I ended up leading it for 4 people to the other side of Sucia to Mud Bay. Highlights were pointing out many bird species that I identified by ear…a real rush hearing my winged friends and triggering all sorts of memories and synaptic neurons that haven’t been used in over 2 years: Heard:  Orange crowned Warbler; Townsends Warbler; Pacific-slope Flycatcher; Violet-green swallow; Rufous Hummingbird; Harlequin Duck; Belted Kingfisher, Bald Eagle, etc

  In the afternoon I had more projects putting pads on the kayak racks.  Went over with the bosun, Aaron, to make a fire right above the beach in a fire-ring surrounded by picnic tables.  He started it with one of those smallish rectangular batteries and some steel wool!  I collected a few plant cuttings, beach-combed a few items and grabbed a handful of dirt from the other side of the island that contained Indian midden material.  Also mentioned the rocks as granitic coming and deposited by glaciers and the beach logs people were sitting on as part of log rafts that escaped from the tow from a barge during a storm.  All this downwind of the fire, but was a terrific idea from our hotel manager, Terri, to throw the cocktail hour at 5pm on the beach.  Leah did a fire show demonstration on the beach to cap it all off…

  Now on our way back in our Dib that Kristin Roth was driving, bosun sped alongside us to grab some of the left-over hor’s deuvres and sped around us…he’s very entertaining!  I had one of those dried meats onshore and as soon as I had it I was tripping over the logs and proclaimed:  “I was looking at my meat and not my feet!”  This got put up in the crew lounge bulletin board for memorable quotes by Leah, another very entertaining place to be during meals.  Spread the Adventure!

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