Author: neil

In all my years of being awoken and nervously trying to decipher the unknown noises closing-in on my bed in the dark of night, “dolphins” was an answer that never even made it on my already-wild list of possibilities. Raccoons, mice, dogs, coyotes, skunk, or even bears, yes, but never the sharp exhalations and thumping…

Day 5 Yesterday morning we had to “endure” our first sunrise on this beach with birds as our only wildlife to view on the water. So today, the dolphins remedied that, returning in far-larger numbers than the other day, and staying in the bay for a much longer time. It gave a chance for a…

Day 4 For the first time on the beach, there were some light clouds at sunrise, which not only gave the sky a fighting chance to compete with the beauty of the water, it also meant that the scorching heat that begins radiating from the east at 8:30am was a bit moderated this morning. So…

Day 3 A second night of tentless sleeping had us up as now-normal for sunrise. But unlike yesterday, we didn’t hear the slapping of manta ray fins on the calm waters of the bay. Instead, we heard the compressed-air exclamations of dolphins! Once we heard their sounds, their rising dorsal fins and arching tails were…

Day 2 It was Rett who had the idea to sleep without setting up the tent. Rett, who has much less success than me at suppressing her instinctual fears of small critters. So of course I was happy to go along with it, just laying out our sleeping pads and sleeping bag on top of…