Christina and I rented boards from Capital SUP on Back Creek, which varied in color from chocolate milk to a dark strawberry (rhodoplankton bloom). We saw cormorants and ospreys and lots of small fish in the shallow coves as well as some sort of turtle underwater. Also I picked up some floating trash.
Century Club: Greg Brennan
Saturday, August 26, 2023
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1 day
Out to bridge and tooling around with Christina and Eric and Jennifer. Lovely wind, and Christina can back that thing into a slip like it's a competition.
Friday, August 25, 2023
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Breezy this morning with those nice rollers that Sophie loves. The wind kept building however until there were scattered whitecaps and it was a struggle coming home to Back Creek.
The only other crazy person out there was Jay Fleming in his power skiff.
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
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1 day
Returned from the plethora of pelicans in Bogue Sound to gaggles o geese in the Severn. No jellyfish and as smooth and windless as ever, as you can deduce from the high speed and straight track.
Thursday, August 17, 2023
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A storm cell at four am took all but a breath of wind from us. I had a nice long easy row, me and Sophie and the no-see-ums.
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
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Did the long row this morning, despite the current. The wind was down a bit from yesterday, as was the temperature. Saw some fishermen, gulls, and pelicans. Back on the dock I spooked a Little Green Heron.
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
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1 day
Lots of wind. I skipped rounding the island into the intercoastal waterway lest I end up in Myrtle Beach. It's very shallow on the south side of this dredge spoil island, with potential oyster bars and I would rather avoid finding out how Sophie's hull holds up to that.
Monday, August 14, 2023
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Gosh, more wind and current than Sophie and I are used to. We just rounded the short island across from the house. I have to med-moor to the dock and it took me three tries to get the anchor in close enough to reach the dock. Ended up walking the painter to the dock's swim ladder.
Still. Beats working.
Sunday, August 13, 2023
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1 day
Humidity and fishing boats! First row down here to get the lay of the, er, land as it were. Just saw my second shrimper coming home from fishing all night.
Saturday, August 5, 2023
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1 day
Warm and flat and smooth and silent. There was a pod of dawn kayakers at the mouth of Back Creek and a couple of trot liners, and Tyrell fishing from the AMM dock after his overnight shift.