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The Wandering Wolfe
Becky Wolfe Photography OsoyoosBritish Columbia Ph: (250) 864-1243 www.beckywolfe.com info@beckywolfe.com	Issue 009

Summer is sizzling in the Okanagan Valley. Temperatures are hovering in the upper 30s (close to 100 F) and the beaches are loaded. Tourist season is in full swing and the air conditioners are running non-stop. Don't like to photograph in the heat, well then its time to stay cool inside & do some photo editing, some marketing and some reviewing of all those photos you shot in the spring! Or, you're getting up even earlier to beat the heat & beat the crowds. Take your camera & 'shoot the tourists' (we know you wanna) Get the parades, the festivals, the fireworks & fun! Summer will be gone before we know it!	Featured Photo The Warrior

A Morning Paddle
Saturday morning! Calm smooth clear quiet waters. A kayak. A paddle. Me. It was a perfect morning for kayaking. The waters on both sides of Hayne's Point were glassy. Hubby dropped me off on the marshy side. Today I chose to opt for less exercise & more tranquility. I found it! It was bliss. I paddled slowly, mostly just floated, and observed the life along the reeds & grasslands of Hayne's Point Provincial Park.
	The sounds were enchanting. The call of a redwinged black bird, my favourite of all. Different types of ducks quacking around their nests. Gulls squawking on the shore. Big yellow sucker fish flopping & tousling in the shallows, making the reeds go wild. The water was clearer than I've ever seen it. I could see every stone, ever single thing sitting on the bottom. When I quit paddling I would watch for the fish. Sometimes they would spot me first and I would only know they were there by the cloud of mud swirling beneathe me. Sometimes they'd swim along right beside me & then notice me and panic. More clouds of mud everywhere. And even one big silly fish bonked the bottom of my boat and I laughed. No clouds. No breeze.
I heard some sort of water bird making all sorts of noise in the reeds. I paddle by. Hmm, do birds & big fish fight? I don't know. I paddle around the bend where the water gets deep fast. I don't like it there. It drops off like a cliff into blackness & seaweed. I hate paddling through seaweed. I go back to the shallows & hear another racket in the reeds. I see two masked eyes looking at me. The biggest raccoon I've ever seen. Probably stealing eggs or baby birds. I don't like raccoons at all. Luckily, I appear bigger to him and he gallops off through the reeds, leaving the bird nests alone, at least for a little while. I paddle. I float. I talk to God. I think deep thoughts. I think nothing at all. I paddle some more.

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