Here is a photo of four people out on a sunset paddle.  It looks so nice, doesn’t it?  It was a nice sunset.

The day started out windy again today.  There were already some white caps but I paddled anyway.  My strategy?  To stay in the vicinity so I knew I could get back in if the wind got worse.  It was paddling laps today, continuous paddling with no time to stop.  Stopping meant having your board turn completely around in seconds!  Paddling into the wind was a workout, but when I turned away from the wind, it blew me effortlessly along.  At one point I was paddling into the wind, when I ran into a couple of paddling buddies.  We were all paddling into the bumps and white caps going north when we spotted a couple of whales spouting in the distance!  We wanted to paddle out, but that wasn’t going to happen in that wind.  After turning around to paddle south, the wind blew me along, and then suddenly it backed off!  The ocean got really nice and then I didn’t want to go in, but I also was looking forward to swimming in the super clear water.  On my way in, I looked down and there was a big Puffer fish swimming right under my board!  Swimming was glorious and the nice conditions lasted all the way though my swim.  The weather was really nice too, even though it was very windy!  I wonder what it will be like tomorrow?