The forecast is for gale force winds today, so I decide to paddle upwind while the wind is still light, so that when the wind does comes up, I’ll have it behind me.  I’ll have the current behind me also, so the seas shouldn’t be too bad.  

I don’t spot any wildlife, so I decide to experiment with camera settings.  I tried shooting with different programs, at different F-stops, shutter speeds, ISO’s, and exposure values.

This is the cliff where I found the lichen the other day.

I shot toward the head of Forward Harbour, which was really beautiful with the snow-covered mountain that looms over the bay.  I finally settled on this shot.

Sadly, this sea star was the only “wildlife” I found today.  He was a real scrapper, though, barely holding on by the very tips of his “fingers”, and he still had at least 3 hours of clinging to that cliff before the tide would come back in.  Will he make it?  

By now, the wind started gusting to about 20 knots.  I found that I couldn’t make any headway paddling into it.  Time to head back to the boat, with the wind and current behind me, it was an easy paddle back to calmer waters.