Spring kayak trip

Not everyone goes kayaking in this time of the year, but it can be pretty fun. This first overnight trip of the year was supposed to go from South Sitka to Brent's Beach and back, but we ended up getting hit with some wind, and came back to the North end of the road via Olga Straits, for a trip total of about 28 miles.

This is a whiteout in Krestof Sound, with so much snowfall at times that it formed polygons in the calm spots. My kayak is actually yellow on top, but it was thickly covered in snow at that time:


This is a great-looking Stimpson's sun star Solaster stimpsoni - a species that usually looks like a limp rag:


This is Brent's Beach cabin, on Kruzof Island:


Kamenoi Beach, with Cathy collecting seashells for her artwork:


The humpback whales were pursuing herring, so although they got pretty close at times, they were less predictable than late summer whales:


Cathy even liked paddling in the snow.


And this is a bald eagle, of course, on a rock south off the Kasianas:


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