Bahia Honda Day 3 & Epilogue

 I didn't set any alarms, but Lucy did.  The day before she left her GoPro in the gift shop, so she was right over there when they opened at 8AM.   As they were some of the last customers the day before, they found it and she had to go retrieve it from the Ranger Station up front.

I got moving and took out the wet fly for the pop up and put it back up to dry out.   She rolled back a few minutes later, and we got all our gear for the SUP together.  Naya was still in teenager sleepy land, so off we went before breakfast.

We had to be off the site by 1, but I wanted to be well into the drive home by then, as the traffic on a Sunday leaving the keys is hectic at best.

We hit the water by 8:45 and off we went.  It was still and SUPER glassy.  Lucy had reported as much from her morning bike ride.  It was the first time Lucy and I tried to stand up paddle in tandem so glassy was a good thing.   Neither of us fell of, but.....

When we pushed off the dock Lucy dug in with her paddle and I wasn't prepped for it.  The sudden movement under my feet, almost took me off the back but I quickly adjusted.  From then on, she set the pace and I was matching her strokes so we were both pulling at the same time.

This made me really have to adjust to meet the length and power of her strokes.  We headed straight out in between to the two bridges as I saw a ball out there.   We got to it and realized the current was running into the bay like the day before.  We did a lap around the buoy and it said NO MOORING, on it.  We then headed to the new bridge as pictured below.

We farted around under the bridge in the shade and it was weird as there would be just a single car going over the bridge about every 30 seconds or so (early Sunday morning), and it would get REALLY quiet in-between.

You can see on some of the pilings that they have been reinforced. The new bridge was the first of the replacement bridges built.  It was built in 1972, so it is showing her age.  You could see some spalling going on, but nothing major.  I'm sure they check it all the time.

We watched a guy fish and just floated around a little.  We weren't real motivated and we knew we had to head in, cook breakfast and break camp.   The RR bridge is still pretty impressive to me as it is over 100 years old.

We got back to the campsite (carried it all in one trip this time!) about 9:45 and started breakfast.   Good thing I put the fly back up as it was nice and dry when we got back.

Rainy Pancake day!

30 minutes later we were eating pancakes in the rain.  Nothing is as delicious as a steaming hot pancake with rainwater dripping right onto it!

It rained for about 10-15 minutes and moved out again.  We packed everything up and were on the road by 11 something.

Traffic was good and when we got to Tavenier, I had Lucy check traffic and it said to take Card Sound Road as there was a 45 minute backup on the 18 mile stretch.   Some jerk probably had a bike fall of the back of his RV or something,  ha ha ha,    

We headed up Card Sound and it was clear sailing.  I remembered the big bump this time and slowed down so that was good!.   

We hit the turnpike and traffic was busy and people were driving like morons, but we made it home just fine around 3:30 PM.