May 24, 2017 – Always we see something we’ve never seen before. Today it was the number of eagle’s nests we stumbled across, that Steller sea lions hauled out in an area we’d never seen them before, the kind of fish we saw a sea lion thrashing and devouring. ‘Every trip is different’ we daily joke and yes it is from start to finish. The flood tide today took us to our favorite places. Sailing in paradise – paradise is not yet lost!

Bald eagle’s nest

Steller sea lions in a new location

Cliffside Wildflowers

King of the rock

Bald Eagles

Bald eagle, honeycomb sandstone and wildflowers

Harbor seals sun-bathing on an emerald glittering jewel of an island

Harbor seals sun bathe on honeycomb sandstone

Cliffface wildflowers

Eagle’s nest overhangs the water

An oil painting of Steller sea lions

Curves of salt on rock with an ore crust

The flowers of Eden

Natural rock carving paintings

Sucia Island

Canada Geese, goslings, and nobbly bits

What kind of fish is this? We think it’s a Big Skate.

Sea lion with a big Big Skate

Supper

Where should we go for supper?

Bald eagle swooped down in front of us

Sunset pass

Sunset in the San Juans