late summer round up

The ​blog got away from me during the month of August. I could blame the heat, the late summer lull, the fact I'm back in school, yada yada--but I was just lazy and forgetful. It happens.  

Nevertheless! August was filled with so many great kayaking trips with so many great people. I still kept my log, so I can quote a fragment from each trip here, as a kind of round-up:

8/9 - No gators or snakes or even really birds, but a nice easy paddle through Buckskin Creek with good vibes and easy conversation. 
8/11 - five-foot sturgeon leaping vertically out of the water right beside us at the end
8/17  - jellyfish floating through the creeks, egrets galore
8/18 - sunrise over the lone cedar tree on the strand
8/20 - A hermit crab on the banks, its furry legs sticking out of its shell. 
​8/27 - A fish surfacing in White Creek, cardinal flower in bloom, a woodpecker and a dove far off
9/1 - I picked up a small jellyfish that was not a cannonball, and I left for the river with a light sting on my hands.
9/1 - Up the river on the incoming tide we went, past a shrieking osprey in the channel marker, then cut across the river and into Vaux Creek, a day of lovely color and the first slightest detection, a small twinge, of fall. 
9/3 - an otter surprised us at the mouth of Cow House Creek, and we watched it slip along the banks
9/5 - A baby gator posed in the duckweed