Mid 80s today. Loving this warmer weather. Paddled to the Harbor View Marina, I in my kayak and Alan on his paddleboard. Saw an eagle in the neighbor's tree but he took off before I could get my camera focused on him so just caught his tail end.Alan eyed a coveted Key West boat on another neighbor's lift.
Century Club: Karen Wood
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
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Really! That's an eagle!
Alan admiring the nice Key West boat.
Alan in the background, guess I could have looked a bit more pleasant for the pic. But I was preoccupied with finding the shutter in the bright sunloght.
Marker 11 up the creek
Harbor View Marina
King of the paddleboard
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
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Alan
The 14 swans up ahead. Was not able to get a better pic of them. For some reason my phone started overheating and shut down. Of course it did.
Alan on his paddleboard me in the foreground. Barely.
Even better to be out on the water. Alan went with me, he on his paddleboard . We saw a ton of swans together, at least 14. A bunch? A gaggle? A pride? I have no idea what a group of swans are called. A herd?
Monday, June 9, 2025
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Heron on the dock far right. Swans withbabies
There they sre
Marker 9
Another pic of one swan and babies
View of creek with me in it.
Rain and storms yesterday so didnt go out. But did this afternoon tho all day rain was originally predicted. No rain at all. But very windy which made for 10 foot waves, well, ok, they FELT like 10 foor waves. Saw a blue heron and 2 swans with 2 babies. They wouldn't let me get too close tho.
Saturday, June 7, 2025
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Swans gliding by
Scene on the creek
Had to take a pic of something.
Out on the creek, saw some swans, some cormorants sunning themselves wings spread out, a few geese and an eagle flew by. Got too close to a scolding osprey. But the swans was the only one that cooperated for a pic, and barely at that.
Friday, June 6, 2025
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All that blackish stuff on the beach is 1000s of weevils.
Windy and rough seas but sunny.
But very windy. Kayaked across the creek, and around wirts wharf. Water was pretty rough but easy enough to paddle around. The bugs are still out in full force all over the beach.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
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Why, there I am. I think pics of birds are more interesting than a selfie, but didn't see any remarkable birds today.
Alan ahead of my kayak
Taking his sails down
Alan and his boat
Alan went out in his sailboat and I paddled about in my kayak. I tried to get closer to him as he was coming in to grab a pic but he was too fast for me and was taking down his sails by the time I got close. Nice afternoon. The stupid weevils are still everywhere. A neighbor says they will be here all summer. Oh, that had so better not be true.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
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Putzing around the creek
A blue heron
Mallard
Caught a cormorant taking off
Taking off
The evil weevil
Guess I'm not the only one in the area puzzled by these weird looking bugs that are dead/alive everywhere. On Nextdoor other people were talking about them and someone identified them as weevils! Yechhh. Course I know nothing about weevils, apparently this species is common, only causes minimal damage to foliage, are not dangerous, won't kill you and so on. But cute they are not. I got a close up of one I pulled out of the water and yes it was miraculously alive. After posing for the portrait he got flicked back into the water. Otherwise calm-ish day, now that I am no longer obsessed about the stupid bugs I tried to take pics of the water fowl I encountered on this trip.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
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Haunted duck blind
Trying (and failing) to be artistic.
The mystery of the little black bugs. They're alive!! Eww.
Out into the creek enjoying the sun, tho it was supposed to be in the 80s today. More like 75. Paddled out to the haunted duck blind. (Well, that's what I call it, it seems like its about to tumble in the water any day now, and it just looks downright creepy.) There are always 1 or 2 osprey on it, but no sign of a nest. Upon my return, I noticed what I thought was the ultimate end of the journey for the bugs I mentioned yesterday. The shore line was littered thick with them. But when I inspected them further, I saw that a lot of them were still alive! Eww. And even tho I has taken a close look at them yesterday and saw that they definitely had wings, these guys did not, and actually looked more like tics, with a bunch of legs. Did they metamorphosis? Were there two bug apocalypses going on? As I walked back to the house I noticed about 10 of them were somehow hitching a ride and were crawling up my leg in typical tic behavior, not that I am an expert entomologist by any means. But I was grossed out enough to flick them all off and stomped on the little mothersf**ers with my soft water shoes that they just laughed at. If I find just one of them embedded into my skin tonight, today was my last day on the water.
Monday, June 2, 2025
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The mysterious bugs
A swam glides by
The requisite pic of my kayak
More swans.
I've noticed this weird phenomenon over the past week. Out on the creek there are 1000s and 1000s of these dead small black flies floating on the water. They're not gnats, but I'm not sure what they are exactly. It’s as if the entire population was flying over the creek and said, “OK, on the count of 3, everyone fly into the water, Ready, one…two…thr…. Oh wait, we can’t swim….” You’d think the fish would be having a field day but I’ve yet to see a fish trying to eat any of them. They are oddly arranged in patches around the creek, current maybe? Well, I’d rather have them be stiffs, than be buzzing about my head.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
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I'll have to Google lens these to see what they are
Quiet day
There he is!
Went across the creek to see if I could find my eagles but no luck. I did see some pretty red trumpet flowers along the bank tho. Very quiet calm day with no boats around, inspite of it being the first of June and a Sunday. Just as i was about to get home there was an eagle in my neighbor's tree! Guess they didn't want my whole day on the water to be a bust.