Another Day at the Beaches
December 7th (Saturday) It sure did pour with rain overnight, but as the sun was coming up in the morning the clouds were parting, and it was a beautiful day! It was the first sunny day in a long time that actually felt warm. We didn't have to wear our long johns or our puffy jackets; it felt so nice to be dressed in less layers. We rowed to the dock in the morning and headed to the beaches. We had chosen to wear our hiking boots instead of our gumboots, so we had to walk around many large puddles that still remained on the trails. In the area with the floating boardwalk, we had to go one at a time and walk briskly across, letting it float back up after one crossing so that the next person would not sink down too deeply. On Fourth beach, where we had once been stopped by the raging river that was too deep to cross even in our gumboots, we took a slippery log that bridged the river at the top of the beach, and made it across. Patterns in the sand left by the waves. Whe...