August 28, Day 76. All over the place, ups and downs. Will brought me back to the beach and he brought his surf ski with him to join me for a bit. We hopped over the fence to get the boat, and maneuvered it over again and I started packing. Off we go, over the bar at the mouth of Strandford Lough which was a little bouncy, not too bad. Turned the corner north and soon after Will said farewell and we would go do some downwind and play we in the waves. I stopped shortly after to wee and had a call with my mom, which lasted an hour, whopps, it’s easy to be on the phone with her for a while and not realize it. She’s my biggest fan and I’m hers. Went on paddling and got in the groove, did some hops from point to point and eventually the tail wind died down with was nice for stability but it meant my boost was gone, so back on my unassisted power. Bummer. But it turned into such an incredible evening weather wise.
I was agaisnt the tide at that point but we are in neap tides at the moment and I didn't mind pushing on to get farther. Bit of dark ominous clouds loomed over head for a while and then the squall of rain came AND THEN this gorgeous, bright rainbow came out after the rain had stopped and it went across the sky the whole way, a perfect arch, it was like a bridge almost, or that I was paddling into the mouth of a huge cave. I’m not very spiritual but sometimes nature makes me feel a certain way. I thought about my mom in that rainbow. At last to Donadaghee as the sun was setting and only did 23 miles when I checked the garmin. Still good of course but it felt like more.
