Rosario to Sucia Island

Woke up as we were almost to Sucia. Beautiful sunny day today luckily. We had a little lunch as my Mom made a batch of brownies. Fred got the dinghy down so we could go explore the shore. We went for a walk over to this beach where a bunch of kayakers were camping. Then up a short hike to Fox Point which had some awesome 180 degree views. We then wandered this beach where we saw some cool sandstone formations. As we were walking towards it, an otter came out of the brush and started sand bathing about 20 yards in front of us. We took a bunch of pictures then started slowly walking towards it to see if he would flee in to the water so we could get by, but he didn’t. Must be used to humans. We decided to leave him be and turned around. So we went up another path and I walked the trail over to a second dock to take a look at Mud Bay from a different angle. Very pretty island. Heading back to the boat on the dinghy, the wind had picked up, so we got a bit wet. Decided to head back to the boat instead of exploring more and wait for the wind to die down to take the dinghy or kayaks back out. So I just downloaded more pics and updated my journal again. Also watching as this bay (Fossil Bay) has now filled up with about 22 boats between the docks and mooring buoys. And I had to pop on my phone to read the sports news, and just read that our Sharks captain officially retired today. I knew it was going to happen, but wanted to read the words to know for sure. Congrats to him on a great career. So Fred decided to take a nap, and while he did so, I commented to my mom that I was sad my trip was already half over. Then she said that it was a bummer that she suggested I only come for a week. So the wheels started turning, and after talking with my Dad to make sure he was still cool watching Nala, I called the airline and turned my 7 night trip into an 11 night trip. WooHoo! So now I have a whole week left. Nothing like being spontaneous. And since the winds didn’t die down too much today, we didn’t get the kayaks down. So we decided to stay in this cove another night and go kayaking earlier in the day tomorrow. We made BBQ salmon for dinner, watched some Canadian turn of the century cop show that we got on tv, an episode of Star Trek Voyager, then an episode of Beauty and the Beast to wrap up the evening.