I have not been kayaking enough this summer. I haven't been out half as much as I did last season. Today I went back to one of my favourite places to paddle, Pepin Island. Perfect day for it too. Barely a breath of wind and blue skies all round. Devon came along and we both decided to give fishing a go. We towed lures behind our boats all the way around the island in the hope of catching a Kawai to cook for dinner. Unlike our last two attempts at fishing this area, we had no luck today.
I did take my camera along, wrapped up inside three layers of zip lock bags. I carefully took it out to get some photos inside the many caves around the islands coast that we can paddle into. Having a digital SLR camera near all that salt water was probably not a good idea it did a good job of capturing the strange light inside the caves.
We've dubbed this one the Bat-cave because its hidden, and hard to spot from the sea. It looks like a mere crack in a large rock face, but opens up to a large cavern. In the early afternoon, the sunlight shafts through the crack to light up the interior in spectacular fashion, as it bounces off the water to dance on the ceiling. I've tried to photograph this before with a pocket sized digital camera but it could never quite capture the colours in this semi darkness. The Canon 300D did a much better job.
Devon having fun herding schools of little fish around the Bat-cave.
Just one of dozens of little stoney beaches around Pepin Island's coast. I've said it before but I never get tired of the sound a beach like this makes.
Devon and kayak are dwarfed by the cliffs on the North side of the island. The large white patches on the rock give away the favourite perches of the many types of sea-birds that feed here.
I won't leave it so long between kayaking trips this time.
7:29:10 PM 
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