My daughter is home for a week, so yesterday we went kayaking with a group out to Malaga Island. The island is the island in Gary Schmidt's Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, and it has a long and complicated history, but what a beautiful place. And there is something magic about being on a wild island, a place most people don't get to see.



We left from Sebasco, Maine with SeaSpray Kayaking. There were about a dozen of us, including my friend Mona and her sister-in-law, Sherry.



We saw lots of gulls and ducks and I loved these two cormorants who looked like they were having a conversation.



Do you see the seal peeking at us from the water in the bottom middle of the photo?



Malaga Island on the left, Bear Island on the right.



Mona and my daughter, Julia



There were broken shells covering the beaches. The Native Americans left them behind for years and years. Our guide said the layers of shells were actually 12 feet deep.



From Malaga



Me and Julia