One of the fun activities on the trip was Kayaking. We rented kayaks a couple of different times. Mike and Mandy went out one afternoon in beautiful clear waters. Dave took Clare, Brinley and Calvin out that same day and had a great time.
The following afternoon everyone else wanted to try it. The water is always very smooth in the morning and then gets rougher as the afternoon. This particular afternoon it was really rough! I was really regretting promising Dave I'd go out!
Dave went out in a Kayak with Ellie and Alexey. It was rough water getting out but Mike and Myles helped them get past the roughest part of the water where the waves were breaking. They came back in about 20 minutes later and both girls were not happy about the kayaking experience. Ellie didn't like salt water getting in her eyes (this bothered her all week), and Lexey didn't like the big waves.
Mike, Myles, Calvin and Brinley had a LOT of trouble getting in their kayak. I was taking lots of pictures to try to capture this moment. Brinley and Calvin were real troopers and really had a good time with the adventure of it all! It took about 7 tries (of getting in the boat and then getting dumped out) before they finally made it out!
Jo was happily playing on the beach while we watched!
so far so good....
all four in the boat
....and then it tips again!
A little later Myles tried to take Warren out but after being dumped out twice he was DONE! He kept saying, "my dad is too big for that boat!" That evening Warren had a black eye. No one knows how it happened but we all wondered if it was from getting smacked around on the kayak.
The rest of these pictures I must have bummed the settings so they are weird and blue but they still tell a good story.
lexey loves the babies
rishelle helping out ellie who was blinded by the salt water
darling darling jo
looking grown up
cute clare bear
myles and mike finally made it off shore
