Day 20 - Water Tower Trail

This was one wet, miserable and oddly adventurous day. We were out at Thumbs Cove when a rain and wind storm hit, keeping us awake readjusting things on the sail boat. We thought we'd go fishing, kayaking, hiking etc. in the morning before heading back to Seward but it was obvious that wasn't going to be a good idea. Instead we were all in the cabin drinking coffee around the cozy wood stove and trying to dry out our gear from the night when the next cabin renters showed. Bummer! So we quickly removed our gear and got ready for a four hour water taxi wait in the pouring rain. I went to the sail boat to read but quickly got sea sick bobbing on anchor. We shuttled the kids, 3 and 6 yrs to the boat, hoping they'd nap but the rock and roll just kept them up. Meanwhile the rest of us continued to get wetter and wetter as we moved all our gear to an area under a tarp and shuttled back and forth in the row boat or dinghy. Bob was worried that the Bay would be even worse weather, may be too much for our little 29' Newport. As we all changed and shuttled and worried and paddled it just became sort of fun having a shared point of misery and commonality. Obviously we made it home and, yes, I did hike up to water tower trail behind my house and over to Jap Creek although it took a lot of motivation to get myself out the door in the rain one more time. Sun would be so appreciated!

"I really don't want to hike today" - dazed stare.