When I got down to the beach, it was about 9 a.m.  It was later than I wanted to go out, but I had to help my husband drop his car off for some work to be done and it took forever.  It seemed like it was already getting windy too.  The ocean was not glassy like yesterday, instead it was ripply!  I wanted to go out, though, because I won’t get to go on the weekend since I am taking a class.  As soon as I started to paddle, the wind disappeared and the ocean got glassy like it was yesterday!  I headed down to the boat ramp and paddling was a breeze.  Just as I headed into the boat ramp area, three turtles popped up, one on my left, one on my right, and one ahead of me!  I was surrounded!  But what was amazing is what happened after that.  Those turtles stayed there and three more turtles surfaced next to them!  Then two more turtles joined us!  I had eight turtles all around me and I was in turtle heaven!  I couldn’t believe they all came up almost together, and then when I started to paddle back, one last one surfaced next to me.  Nine turtles altogether, with eight of them surfacing almost at the same time.  That had never happened to me before!  The conditions stayed nice all the way back and right through my swim too.  It was just another one of those perfect days!!!!