New Dawn

Six months after stopping at St. Andrews State Park, for a Christmas to New Year’s Day break, I finally restarted on June 19, 2022.
Debbie dropped me off at the boat ramp past noon. It was late afternoon when I was loaded and ready to go.
Heavy boat traffic made it impossible to cross the Saint Andrews Bay inlet safely. At first, I stayed in the kayak, waiting for an opening to dash across the channel. After a while of watching every type of imaginable boat (pontoon boats, jet skies, fishing boats, sailboats, power boats, a boat made to look like a buccaneer pirate ship, boats with shark teeth painted on the prows), I went to the north shore and waited to watch the parties go by.

The sun had started to slide behind the horizon before it was safe to cross.