So I am back from a week and 2 days at the beach. It was great seeing my family and David, Susan, Lutz and their kids - friends I have had since I lived in Atlanta. It's great that we have stayed in touch.

Some things that made me happy:

• Being able to watch the entire final stage of the Tour de France with Lynda and Mom and sometimes Dad.
• Morning walks with Dad and then with the gang.
• Renting a two person kayak and toodling around the tidal basin. It was so cool being low in the marsh with the herons and jumping fish and shrimp.
• Watching our Assassin Film Festival - The Bourne Supremecy, Grosse Pointe Blank, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, The Professional (AKA Leon).
• Having Andrea and Lane join me as guest paddlers on Lynda's Dragon Boat team practice. And knowing the rest of the gang were supporting us on land.
• My philosophical discussion on the humor of comedienne Sarah Silverman with Lane and Andrea
• Dinner at the restaurant Coast with Lynda after paddling. Great drinks, great food.
• Watching old reruns of the TV game show The Match Game with Hunter and Andrea
• Catching up and talking music with everyone
• Hiking at the ACE Basin with David and Andrea. The mosquitos were unrelenting but we saw a beautifully vivid redheaded woodpecker, an unusual squirrel (maybe a fox squirrel), large lizards, wild pigs and white-tailed deer.
• Bartering with Mom: I changed and calibrated the battery in her iBook in exchange for her doing the gross and brutal initial cleaning of the crabs we caught in the traps.
• Cooking and eating and drinking.
• Shopping the local Edisto tourist shops with Lynda, Lutz and Sandy and actually finding some linen pants that fit.
• Lynda and I trying to get Lutz, Andrea and Hunter addicted to shark teeth hunting. We may have succeeded.
• The perfect ocean water temperature

Some pictures present and past:

Scenes from Edisto Beach 2006

Scenes from Ocean Isle 2004

Scenes from Ocean Isle 2003

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