back or forward or duck or what on earth she should do. “The whole thing felt like slow motion…I thought, oh no, it’s going to hit me.” Which is when she bent her head forward and felt something like a beanie bag hit her in her spring-loaded ponytail. A soft thud and it was gone. The poor pudgy puffin-like critter continued on, with a surely-by-now erratic heartbeat from its encounter with a curly nest of a different kind. Leaving the rest of us…hysterical. Who knew a kayak tour could include potential dangers from airborne auklets? They say the shortest distance between friends is through shared laughter. What we discovered about throwing ourselves together with total strangers was it was easy to make new friends after shared belly laughs. Further bonds followed watching eagles wheel overhead or salmon flopping in front of our boats. We held each others’ bows as we rafted offshore to watch an otter mom carry her pups up the rocky shore. And seeing the sun throw its last flames on the shore while staring into a crackling beach fire touches something instinctual and perfect. Witnessing the miracle of whales breaching while we sat suspended in the watery belly of the ocean is another memory I hold dear, as real to me as the heart-shaped rocks we found on the beach, rocks that now sit beside me on my desk as I type and smile. This, then, is the way to inspired health; living among nature, eating deliciously healthy food, making new friends, creating watercolor memories, all while getting enough exercise to justify eating warm cake out of the fire’s Dutch oven. Good stuff happens on trips like these…especially when you don’t have to do the dishes.
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