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Melissa & Dave - Adventures at Sea

Dave falls in

For breakfast we headed into the restaurant.  There we met a young grad student who was majoring in aeronautics.  He was here working on a project using an autonomous helicopter he had built to video the local dolphin population to help the scientists here in the bay study them.  He was flying the helicopter off the point near the restaurant.  As you might imagine, Dave and Mike were fascinated and had a long discussion with him about how he had built it and what technologies he was using.

We spent the day reading and swimming.  For dinner we headed into the small single restaurant here in the bay.  Rain was threatening and we debated with Wanuskewin whether to try to beat the rain or wait it out.  We decided to go for it.  Wanuskewin was anchored closer to the dingy landing and managed to get to the restaurant just as the first drops started to fall.  We were not as fortunate.  By the time we got to the landing it was coming down in buckets.  Melissa pulled the umbrella out of her backpack and managed not to get completely drenched.  But Dave couldn't afford to block his line of sight with the umbrella and got wet.  Though not as wet as when he stepped out of the dingy and found the bottom further down than he expected.  Splash.  He fell in.  Now he looks like a drowned rat.  When Melissa offered to share her umbrella on the walk to the restaurant Dave shrugged and gave her the "what would the point be?" look.

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