Day 79 - August 22nd Yesterday was a peak experience for the trip. I totally struggled in the morning, my body stretching slowly after back to back 20 mile days. My attitude was in the dumps until evening settled in, the winds calmed down and I found my groove. As we pushed on into darkness, the day went from an average day to a special once in a lifetime experience. The night was nothing short of wild. As we paddled through near complete darkness we watched transfixed as the bio-luminescence lit up the waters around our kayaks. In the perfectly calm water we could make out little wake lines pushing off our bows. With each paddle stroke an explosion of light would mark the disturbance made by our paddles, then slowly fade away in a faint trail behind each boat. The night grew darker when the moon set around 11:00pm and the fog slowly obscured the stars. As our eyes adjusted to the inky black surroundings, we began to notice the movement of hundreds of little fish around our kayaks. Their bodies leaving little tracers of
green-white light in the water. When we reached Frosty bay and paddled into the shallow water, hundreds of spawning humpies (pink salmon) splashed around our boats, their bodies thumping against the kayaks plastic shells, and scaring us half to death. It took quite some time to find the mooring dock and cabin, but we settled in to our sleeping bags by first light. The only night spent outside of a tent on the trip. (Mike) 
