Hiking

Hi Everyone,
Thanks to Jayden and Ingrid for sending us a comment and to Mika and his family for posting comments. No worries, your dreams of waterfalls etc probably foreshadow some of the great things we are going to see. Peter is about to post a bunch of photos. These show sunny, calm conditions. Don't be fooled, this represents less than 5% of the time of the trip. Peter is paid the big bucks to put a rosy shine on all things he takes pictures of. That being said, when I saw all the photos, I realized that we have actually done quite a few things while at the various locations we have pulled into. Here are some of the highlights according to Nadia:
1) We have seen hundreds of pelicans, hundreds of sea lions (check out Nadia's photos of them), puffins, egrets, sandpipers, terns, and lots of jellyfish (see Nadia's photo of a purple bucketfull), dolphins and porpoises. Nadia had a giant mussel close on her net such that we had to wait 15 minutes or so until he let go.
2) Learning how to do a headstand on the grass and backrolls if I am going down a hill.
3) Gymnastics on the sail halyard and jibstay.
4) There is lots of kite flying here and kite waterskiing and windsurfing. I didn't know windsurfers could move that fast. There is a kite and candy store in the village of Bodega Bay. They have really beautiful kites there. Dad bought me two books of tattoos.
5) Fishing off the dock, catching jellyfish, and a couple of small fish.
6) I found 4 empty snail shells. They are very big. They like to live on what Mom thinks are Cana Lilies. I call them canvas lilies.
7) Nadia says it is taking so long to get to San Francisco and we are not there yet.
8) I made a ladybug, dragonfly and oyster out of Fimo clay. Also, I have done a lot of painting. We make lots of paper airplanes. After finishing a whole book of mazes, called MazeCraze, we tear out the pages, fold them into paper airplanes which we throw off the back of boat. Nadia has become an expert paper airplane folder.
Hopefully the next post will be from San Fran.
Brenda and Nadia.