Today we rented a kayak—have I ever mentioned how much I hate kayaks?—and paddled from Siltcoos Lake to the ocean. It was an uneventful float, but when we stashed the kayak on a sand bar for a walk on the beach, we discovered a colony of seals (or herd or pod, I'm not sure). Not being an ocean person, I didn't know that you could walk up to live seals without paying a zookeeper or concessionaire.
At any rate, after walking a bit further, we returned to the kayak to await the rising tide. It was a really interesting moment. We waited as the surf covered the sand and slowly turned our bar into a lake. The seals swam up the inlet to look at us: VSO said they were curious. Slowly, the boat lifted, the current reversed, the wind picked up, and, without doing anything, we floated effortlessly back to the car.
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