[CKF Info] Day #45, Southern Migration

[Mark Sanders]

5/26/08

Saw an email late yesterday that Lee would be down to paddle Newport with
Carol Fallon today. Early this morn, I called Ken and he told me he'd
emailed Lee to say he'd be at the CG beach around 9:30, so I thought I'd tag
along. Ken was tired from his paddle down in San Diego an I was tired from
laying around all weekend grumpy from our aborted Catalina trip. Today would
have been our return day and conditions were still up in the air. Just a
light breeze, but the sky was gray and threatening and we felt a bit of
drizzle when we hit the water. Still, Catalina looked as clear as could be,
as if to mock me for my failure!

On the water, I learned that Ken had only emailed Lee early this morning and
with his commute, there was no way to know if he'd received it! We head over
to the CG beach, but it was mostly deserted. We paddled over in back of
Balboa Island to see if we could see them paddling, but no luck and the
weather seemed to be taking a bit of a turn for the worse. We figured we'd
missed them and so decided for a short BAR paddle as our destination.

The harbor waters were a bit murky, but outside the jetty things looked a
lot better, so we both tried a roll. I was still bummed from my Edith trip
rolling difficulties and wasn't really in the mood which was probably why it
took me a couple tries to get up and even then it looked ugly! Ken's roll
was Superior, even though he was in his Epic. Cooled off, we continued down
the coast.

BAR was crawling with pescadors and the low tide had exposed the rocky
shelf, which one brave angler was using. Ken continued rolling while I snuck
back to hang out a while. Catalina looked beautiful in the distance. We
headed home close to shore through the kelp beds with spear-gun wielding
scuba divers popping up around us. Almost back at the CG beach, we ran into
Lee and Carol heading out to sea. Lee hadn't received Ken's email so they'd
taken time to have tea before setting out for their paddle. We chatted for a
bit, but were both ready to head home and left them to enjoy the ocean by
their lonesomes. Ken and I once again availed ourselves of the public dock
to land, which we're sure delighted the man who lives nearby who always
complains about sand on the sidewalk! It was a short paddle, but it was nice
to see one of our northern, tuiliked neighbors visiting our waters.

Mark Sanders
www.sandmarks.net

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