On the suggestion of a good friend we decided to go kayaking. We were looking forward to it because kayaking is something that we would want to do, but would be to lazy to do on our own. After breakfast we took the ferry to Bainbridge Island and then walked over to Exotic Aquatics where our guide Alissa was already waiting for us. She had a waiver to sign in case we drowned or were run over by a boat so we wouldn’t hold Exotic Aquatics liable.

The weather was perfect, and after a 10 minute instruction session at the public docks we were in the water kayaking to Blakely Rocks. In my mind Blakley Rocks were a part of the island full of trees and very forest-like, but no, they were literally an exposed rock mass full of knats and Geoducks — pronounced “gooey ducks”, some sort of clam thing delicacy to the folks here in Seattle/Bainbridge. We got to see a few seals poke their heads out of the water, we took some pictures and had a nice sack lunch. At the end of the day we had kayaked about 4 miles — not bad for our first time. As we walked back we reminded ourselves why we don’t do this type of stuff more often; we were beat, could hardly put one foot in front of the other and couldn’t raise our arms above our shoulders to save our lives. It was great!

We looked forward to the rest of the day because it was full of lounging around, sleep and room service.

Today marks our one week of being married. What do we think? WE LOVE IT!

Happy honeymooning to us!