Our first venture out was to see the area around the island and give those that wanted to kayak a chance to do so.. i was going to be an odd man out so i decided not to do it. We instead were able to see sea lions and their cub basking in the sun along with the blue footed boobies.NextWe traveled to Post office Bay for our mail delivery in the barrel of the post. This has been there since the 1930;s and is still going. I picked out 3 cards to deliver personally. And we will see when i get mine returned. Snorkling after but it was very choppy and the water was jerky.After lunch we got dropped off to Cormorant Bay to view the flock of flamigos and the turtles. The turtles were resting of the beach waiting to come up in the late afternoon to lay their eggs. They lay about a 100 at a time and then go back to the water. The eggs will take 3 months to hatch. We watched a hole that the turtles were hatching and so did the great blue herring and the frigate bird. The herring won as his beak was longer. He poked his beak in and grabbed a turtle. He helped himself to 5 baby turtles while we watched. Our after dinner excitement was watching the sharks circling the boat and hoping for a meal of the flying birds. The sea lion was getting most of the meal. We counted up to 11 sharks at once.
We are off for the morning Some were going to try kayaking. I would have gone but i didn’t have a partner Julia and Cheryl were the first crew off Looking good Next were Ingrid and Rick Blue feet boobies This guy was watching a sea lion basking in the sun. These guys were so cute
A face only a mom would love.Here we are at the post office barrel. A tradition that has continued on since the ships and sailors came through with mail.
We took the mail out of the barrel and read off places that the postcards were going. If you were near that place, then you took the mail to deliver when you got home. I took 3 to deliver. One was in Providence RI but i ran out of time so I continued up North and went to Lowell Ma. Here i met the lady that had mailed her card. She took my Providence one because her daughter lived there and she was going to see her. The last one was in Campton NH. No one was home but as i placed it in the door I noticed a Campton fire dept. Coat so i figured i would catch up with the owner sometime since we do mutual aid together. Turns out that the woman was connected with the our school here in Lincoln. Her teacher friend had connected who I was. This was told me at the local ski area..such a small world.
My post card was delivered by a couple that was from the Durham area where UNH is . They had taken a day trip up hoping to catch me. I was just coming off Covid so I was home. They were so nice. She had written a book about her 500 mile walk across France and the Camino. She sent me her book called Walking France by Gale Carey. On amazon. She told me they were traveling to Vt for another delivery in a the near future,
Our lunch
Off to see Flamingos
Turtles
We stopped to watch a frigerate and a blue herring fight to get the baby turtles that were just hatching we couldn’t see them but they did. This one won the feast as his bill was longer.
Caught his pray and now off to eat it…sad He did this 5 more times that we watched. Our special cocktail hour
The next pictures are of sharks that were circling the boar. There was a seal lion under the boat that was shooing our flying fish were they were hiding These fish would come flying out from under the ship, skimming the water and the battle would begin between the sharks and sea lion trying to catch the fish. The sea lion almost always one. The sharks didn’t bother the sea lions because they were bigger.
It was hard to get any good shots of the sharks.I was glad to not be swimming!!
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