East Sound, Orcas Island, WA
Sea Kayaking, Orcas Island, WA
Leaving Orcas Island, WA
Orcas Village, Orcas Island, WA
After waking up bright an early we headed over to Orcas Village for an 8 a.m. kayaking excursion. We signed a release, got brief instructions, and were out on the water in no time. There were an odd number of people on the kayaking tour - 5 - so.. unlucky me.. I had to share a kayak with the cutest tour guide on Orcas Island, Jesse from San Francisco. Kayaking on the Sound early in the morning was very relaxing and chill. We saw many animals, including river otters, a harbor seal, tons of purple and orange starfish, sea cucumbers, clams, a heron, and a bald eagle and its baby. I would recommend sea kayaking to anyone, especially if you’re not actually on the sea and don’t have to row very much because your cute tour guide is doing all the work for you.
After kayaking we parked our car on line for the ferry back to Anacortes. It can be hard to get off the island - you need to get your car on the line hours before the ferry is scheduled to leave. While the car was parked we had breakfast and did a little shopping. This was our last ferry ride of the trip, which was good because I was starting to get a little sick of sitting on the ferry.
3 responses so far ↓
1 tien // Aug 17, 2003 at 11:40 pm
are you making a face in photo #5? if so, that’s a quality face. if not, feel free to ignore this comment…
2 Mark Shewmaker // Aug 18, 2003 at 1:46 pm
PC video doesn’t do these photos justice. I miss sitting in front of a tricked-out Mac all day.
3 rachelle // Aug 18, 2003 at 3:36 pm
Mark - they don’t look too bad on a PC, but they were made on a mac, so that is the optimal viewing platform, i guess. I’m afraid of what’s going to happen to my “tricked-out mac” without you and mcgregor here.
I’m ignoring Tien’s comment.