Getting Ready
Skim ice on the Paerdegat
Greenland Chic
Commodore Tony helps Martha with her boat
Phil
Wintery Dock
Me (in penguin hat) & TQ
Martha, Stevie, me, TQ, Steve & Tom. Missing: Phil, Pete and Minh (they launched a bit later & caught up).
Ready to go!
Heading down the Paerdegat
Tom & Stevie
Out of the basin & into the bay
Wintery sky
Ice!
Ice is made to be broken!
Martha on the ice
Steve's turn
Pete pushing ice around
Minh & Stevie, heading out of Jeep Marsh
Phil on the bay. It was grey & chilly but great paddling with no wind.
Heading for Ruffle Bar
Let's go find seals
Paused at Ruffle Bar, looking for seals. We did see one a minute later, although too far for picture taking.
A short break, looking at the seal
Heading on to the Ruffle Bar salt marsh. Stevie paddled backwards for a while in hopes that the seal we'd been watching for a couple of minutes would follow. No such luck this time, but sometimes it works.
Martha in the salt marsh
Rafting up
If Phil's along -
it always gets to be Fig Newton time sooner or later!
I was very happy with my special Frostbite Penguin Hat.
Not a breath of wind.
Ruffle Bar raccoon.
He'd found a good patch of mussels
was so interested in those
he hardly noticed me paddling by
Another inexplicable sudden wildlife die-off?
Naaah, just the annual Frostbite Rolls!
Final shot - the most wonderful birthday cake I've ever seen! So pretty, nobody ever cut into it - it left intact.
