Still no blue skies, but at least it isn’t raining this morning.  At 0700 hours I set out paddling up Quigley Creek.  I didn’t get very far before I spotted a very young merganser fishing.  I thought for sure his mother must be nearby, but to my surprise, he was all alone.  I stuck with him for over an  hour, while he caught fish after fish.  His momma taught him well.

By now, it was nearing high tide, so I paddled as quickly as I could to get as far as I could before I ran out of water.  However, I couldn’t resist stopping long enough to take these shots of a couple of kingfishers that were nice enough to pose for me.

The creek was pretty shallow in spots, so I had to read the water to find places deep enough to paddle through.  After paddling for about a mile, the creek became so shallow that I had to turn around.  The tide would start going down soon, so now I had to hope that those shallow places on my way up the creek would still have enough water to make it back.

After bumping a few rocks here and there, I eventually made my way back to the anchorage.  The sea was a bit bumpy now, due to tidal conditions, but I was curious to see if the eagle I saw yesterday would be in the same spot today.  Well, he was, but I was being bounced around so much that I was only able to get this one shot.