Not a beach day - this is about bow surfing.
After a couple days off the boat, we were both ready for some time on the water today. Temps in the upper 70s, lots of sunshine, low humidity, and breezy. The weather weasel on the local TV channel this morning called it, "Winds 10 to 25 mph today"... yeah, it should be in there somewhere.
Coming out of our canal and into the ICW, we could see this shrimper heading out and coming up behind us...
He must be expecting some breeze - they don't usually have their outriggers out in this area. Coming into the turning basin, this tug and barge are docked...
We saw some dolphins ahead of us in the Port Isabel Channel. With the shrimper coming up fast behind us, we expected to see some bow surfing. Yep...
I brought our speed up to match the shrimpboat and we enjoyed the bow surfing show...
The dolphins do this for the sheer joy of it, and you can sense their excitement. We backed off power and watched this shrimpboat head out the ship channel. This one was coming in...
I hope the fact that it is sitting lower in the water means a good catch.
We turned off from the ship channel, going into South Bay. Lots of shallows there, so it isn't on our regular sight-seeing route. It did give us more of an up-close look at the barges and pipeline operation going on there...
This couple was fishing from their kayaks - perfect for these shallow waters...
Back into the ship channel, another tug pushing a barge, heading for the pipeline operation further east...
I generally wear long-sleeve cool gear for the warm temps. This old body hasn't seen sun in a while, so I whipped off the shirt to get some vitamin D...
Sorry - I should have warned you ahead of time. Joan apparently didn't need the vitamin D, but was exhausted after that intense dolphin photography session...
Heading towards home, I scanned around us, looking for more dolphins or other interesting views. A half mile from turning in our canal, "Two dorsal fins ahead!"
Energized...
Some heads and tails...
We watched these two for a while, then said our good-byes and turned to head for home...
A nice tail and dorsal fin in the sparkly water to send us off.
Nice day on the water.
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