Took the Kiwi kruzer to Horsehead cliffs and sat in our floaty chairs with, of course, beer. Saw only 1 jellyfish. Also watched an Osprey with a fish. Perfect way to spend my 70th bday. Thank you Alan.
Century Club: Karen Wood
Depth gauge on the Kiwi Kruzer has not been working for around 2 months so we took it in to Harbor View Marina to get it checked out. Was fortunately a simple fix. We boated out to the Potomac to test it. Choppy out but not too bad. I was able to dock the boat without any mishaps. Hot hot day out there.
Paddled across Mattox creek to check out a nice sailboat we saw go out yesterday.
Kiwi Kruze to Machodoc Creeek cafe for lunch. Nice hot day. 1st time we've been to Upper Machodoc Creek and this close to Dahlgrens.
Very low tide so paddled over to sunken sailboat to see if more of it was visible. No one takes ownership, so whose responsibility is it to salvage it or at least get it out of the creek where it is a navigational hazard?. My husband wants the mast to make a flagpole. Can we just take that?
Today is my 70th day on the water, apropos as I turn 70 next week. Pretty windy as Alan, on his paddleboard and I in my kayak, paddled to Harbor View Marina and back. Rain coming soon.
There's a sailboat in the creek that as far as we can tell is abandoned. It's been moored in the middle of nowhere near some land that's been for sale for a long time. Hasn't been moved ever. Pretty dirty and looks very neglected. Very mysterious. I paddled over to it and checked it out.
5pm and it was still pretty hot out. Paddled across the creek to look at the sunken sailboat again.
Very windy, coming from the southeast. Took me about 1/2 hour of hard paddling to party cove, coming back took 5 minutes with just me steering. Lots of birds along the way.
Afternoon paddle while Alan sailed.