After the chicken fiasco, it was a miracle that we were able to fall back asleep until about 8:15 am. We told Carole about the morning's events and she roared with laughter declaring that she wished she had it on video. So do we! We drank coffee on the back porch, in the morning sun, overlooking the beautiful garden. Carole then cooked us a breakfast of scrambled eggs (take that bitches!!) with a splash of sherry - we're liking this lady more and more - and sauteed grape tomatoes and snap peas from her garden. We had more good conversation over breakfast, then we packed a picnic lunch for our island adventure.
The island is all privately owned by about 70 people, with a total of 180 people living on it. It's not very big and can be circumnavigated, by car, in about 30 minutes. We visited South Beach which was beautiful in its own way..............a rugged, pebbly way, with water so cold you could die of hypothermia in 20 minutes. We sat on a piece of driftwood about the size of a tree trunk and enjoyed the beautiful view and the warmth of the sun.
(Disclaimer: we are spoiled by the most beautiful, fluffy, powdery white sand beaches of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. We have visited many incredible beaches around the world....Italy, France, Greece, and California, and East Coast of the US, but none are as beautiful as the Gulf and Caribbean. Also, the water must be bathtub warm. That is our benchmark and so far we have yet to find a beach that comes close.)
We left the beach and drove past the idyllic red school house and to the library, an old log cabin about the size of a Suburban. There was sat on a bench and utilized the Wifi. Everyone driving past looked at Stormy as though she were as spaceship. Maybe it was the strange vehicle with the California plates? Or maybe it was the SUPERBOWL 44 CHAMPIONS license plate frame? Yeah baby!!!! We drove past a field of cows and bulls. One of the cows had horns, and udders. So, either it was in the middle of a sex change or, some cows can have horns. We forgot to ask Carole about this. Is it obvious that we're city girls?
The day was just a lazy, beautiful, rejuvenating kind of day. We ate lunch on the front porch overlooking Blind Bay. We watched the birds fly around the garden. We took Luna down to the pond where she scared off a flock of Canadian Geese.
G- I've seen Canadian Geese from afar, but I've never been this close to them. They are really larger than I thought they were.
P- And watch where you walk, because they have shit everywhere!
G- Now we know where the expression "shitting like a goose" comes from.
P- I realize they are large birds, but these piles of shit are almost the size of cow paddies.
We threw the ball into the pond and Luna retrieved...............and shook her water off on us. We went to the hen house to checked for eggs and were excited to find 7 eggs. Carole had told us they were not laying very much because some of them were getting older and the young ones were still too young to lay. Phyl proudly brought the eggs to Carole and told her that maybe the hens lay more after being chased around the yard at 6 am.
We then walked down to the Bay and watched otters diving for dinner and deer grazing in a field across the bay. We stayed until the sun set at about 9:30.
It was just the kind of restful, peaceful day we needed. We again slept in the bed on the porch.
