The bad news: we missed another episode of our favorite reality show last night. The good news: Rob, Hal and Jeff treated us to another late evening kayak experience. This time we added a few more paddlers to the mix. Hal's neighbor James and Phil, his coworker just up from New Zealand, and another Kodiakan Amanda. By the time we got the gear and the group together, picked up some food to eat at the beach, and launched everyone it was near 7:30. We put in at Mill Bay and paddled out and around Miller Point - part of Fort Abercrombie State Park. Usually teeming with comorants, eagles and puffins, the rocks off of Miller Point were eerily quiet. Once we reached the point we rafted up and enjoyed a Rainier "loud mouth malt." Calm water allowed us to drink, eat and be merry while the sun slowly slid toward Kodiak's mountain peaks. After rafting we paddled between rocks that punctuated the shoreline to find a small beach. Meghan was excited to find anemones, crabs, and chitons in the tide pools. I chatted with the Kiwi about skiing in New Zealand and we made plans for a mountain bike ride later in the week. Soon we all geared up and shoved off to return to Mill Bay. I lingered in the kelp beds soaking up every moment of the sunsetting pink light on the silvery sea. By the time we landed our boats we saw a couple of otters, no one went for a swim and it was past ten o'clock. The Deadliest Paddle it sure wasn't.
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