Picnics and time on the water

 

One of the highlights of the trip so far was a picnic with Stewart and Sarah on Mouse Island.  Low tide was in the middle of the day and this generally precludes good picnics.  At low tide the beaches are generally terrible and the boat access is poor.  But on Mouse island even at low tide there is a clam shell beach.  Also Stuey, Sarah and Stewart were able to park the motorboat at a nearby dock and walk out to the island on a spit only exposed at low tide.  Nora and I paddle boarded all the way to the island from the house.

We lit a fire below the high tide line, cooked hotdogs and ate chips.  Pretty simple and absolutely perfect.  After we ate the kids and I took the paddle boards up Perry's Creek and went swimming.  The sun had warmed the shallow water and it was almost as warm as a heated pool.

And then when the tide started to come in and flood the spit connecting the island to the shore it was time to go home.

Once the spit started to get flooded it was time to go home!

Nora trying her hand at waterskiing - soon after this I tried to do it too with disastrous results!