Showing posts with label kayak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kayak. Show all posts

Sunday, August 15, 2010

A Cat in a Kayak

"A Cat in a Kayak" is the title of one of our favorite children's books, written by one of my favorite authors, Maria Coffey. I've mentioned Maria and her husband, Dag Goering before, because Gregg and I love their books. We met them in May of this year, when we were in Victoria for our anniversary.

It's HOT here today, so we took the kayaks out for a ride. Gregg and I went about 2 miles first, and then I came in, so that David could take my kayak and go with Gregg. (They have a lot more stamina than I have, so they go farther.) The two of them crossed over to Bainbridge Island, paddled along the shore, and came home.

Liger was on the beach, meowing, when we went out and when we returned.
He likes boats.
We assumed he wanted to take a ride, so we let him sit in the cockpit.
He liked it...
...until some folks walked by with a very enthusiastic golden retriever, OFF leash. The golden decided to come and play in the water, too.
Liger decided it was time to hide.

The golden retriever and his owners walked on by, and Liger decided it was time to get out of the boat.
He got a bit ahead of David...
...misjudged the distance, and took a little dip.
The walk of shame.

Don't worry about him - he's fine! I dried him off, and he gave himself a bath.

Maria and Dag, we are thinking of you.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Kayaking

Wednesday, the students from Ste. Tulle took another fieldtrip:  this time, to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, and then back to Poulsbo for kayaking.

I wasn't with them on this fieldtrip, but when I went to pick up Zoe (and Maud, who came with her for the afternoon), this is what I saw: 
Julien & Mathilde
Maud & Claire?
Zoe & Chloe
Mme. Raige (their teacher) at the dock.

Isn't that awesome?
They were tired, but they had FUN.
 
Even though Zoe and Chloe had accidentally 
flipped their kayak and
fallen in the COLD water,
they had fun.

After a shower and a load of laundry, everything was back to normal. Zoe & Maud went down to the beach for a walk, and then into our woods to try the rope swing.
It was a good day.