A Perfect Beach Day and Fish
June 30th (Sunday) Today was a perfect summer beach day! Exactly the type of day we had imagined in our best dreams of Calvert Island. We hiked our way out to 7th beach and set up our day site in a spot we like, at the far end of the beach. The sun was behind a large cloud at first, but it came out in full strength within an hour. We spent the day having a ton of beach fun. The beach, especially on a sunny day, is the perfect environment to bring out motivation and enthusiasm. We played hacky-sack, skim boarded, played Frisbee, practiced karate, explored the rocky edge to the beach, went swimming, and did some boogie boarding with our skim board a couple of times. Playing in the waves was so much fun! The water was quite cold to get into at first, but once we were in, as long as we were playing, we stayed warm for a while before the deep chill finally set in. The waves were not particularly big unfortunately, but every so often we would get a set of three good sized...