Last Kayak Day

By Chris Friday

November 13, 2017

Today marked our final full day on our kayak expedition. For this last day, we were left to fend for ourselves on La Ventana, our island for the night for Jeff and Francisco left us to go back to Casa Azul. Upon arrival here at La Ventana, an interpretation was held about Gray Whales and their rather long journey migration up and down the west coast from the Arctic seas to Baja California. After this, we had a day full of lessons that included: a scenario by Ashley, knots by myself, Austin, and Tracy, outdoor ed lessons by Sean and Ashley, and a book report by Austin. It was quite the day of lessons. For Ashley’s outdoor ed lesson, we learned how to move like animals. In Sean’s lesson we became mice in need of shelter from hawks, floods, an snakes. Sadly my group didn’t survive the snakes. Before Sean’s lesson we went on a bit of a hike trying to reach a cross that was in sight, but seemed to be unreachable. There was quite the debate held on whether or not to go down a hill or not. In hindsight, this was a rather silly debate that resulted in very little change occurring. We ended up at the start of the trail where we learned that we had to go back to where we began our hike. On our way back up the hill, a cactus somehow jumped out of nowhere and attacked Emma’s leg. It’s weird, I didn’t realize cacti could jump. We never managed to reach our final destination of the cross, but we took a really long route to reach a pretty cool overlook of the bay where we could see all the places where we had traveled thus far on our Kayak expedition. For dinner, we had spaghetti prepared by Emily, no lumpy noodles this time. This was one of our better meals I have had thus far on this kayak trip of ours. It has been a rather interesting day for our group today without our two Baja California instructors with us. Tomorrow marks our final chunk of our journey. Back to Casa Azul we go.