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| The "Dragon's Back," the Last thing to be Covered as the Tide comes in |
The morning was the usual overcast and fog
but it brightened up quickly. I decided to make the cheese biscuits from Red
Lobster. I brought one batch and added the cheese and water to make the
delectable pillows of delight. What makes them perfect is the herb/salt packet
that you mix with butter and slather all over the biscuits. As we were eating our
delicious biscuits we noticed someone ran down to just below our window of our
old radio room where we have our personnel space. We both stood up at the same
time to see a young boy taking a leak. Fred rapped on the window and we yelled
at the little brat. He looked up at us in udder surprise, zipped his fly and
ran off. We hope he peed on himself. We can imagine where people relieve
themselves on the island since we have no public bathrooms, which is clearly
stated in signs before people reach the lighthouse. Some don’t seem to use the
bathrooms in the parking lot before they come over here and others can’t read.
Kim let us know she would show up shortly
after our opening time of 1 pm. She had lots of reminiscing to do at her alma
mater. We started our tours just a bit before 1pm with the help of Terrie and
Leon, our faithful assistants. It was a very busy day with the glorious
sunshine and I organized the groups with military fashion and humor and
politeness. Even though Terry and Leon left at 4pm, we stayed open till till
past 5 pm to accommodate everyone. We had good sales on merchandise and we were
exhausted at the end of our duty. In the
middle of it, all our dear friend Kim showed up and I couldn’t give her a
welcome hug for awhile. She entertained herself and explored the tiny island
and even helped with the crowds. Mike, a local dedicated volunteer, popped over
to check about an air mattress he wanted to use while he would be here the
beginning of next month filling in for the keepers until they show up. When he
came to briefly chat with me he handed my 3 pretty little agates that he found
on the beach when he crossed over. We have been looking but didn’t find any. He
seems to have a keen eye to spot them. He came to work on our days off and we never
got to work with him. I told him the next time we were here we would work with
him.
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| Surf Scoter (Picture Taken by Drew) |
Everyone was out by 5:30 pm and we got to finally chat with Kim. We were starving but snacked a bit and
started happy hour. Kim and I went to the lantern room to watch the views. The
last stragglers were crossing over on the dragon’s back (sewer line) and Kim
and I watched them while Fred watched them from a bench outside. They were
trickling back when we noticed a couple sitting down on the rocks and just
milling about. Fred went down to check on them and came back to his bench. He
motioned to us that they were drinkers. After everyone had crossed they were
still there hanging around. We then watched as the woman tried walking over the
dragon’s back, which was half covered by the tide now. She fell down into the
deeper water a few times and her male partner just stood and watched and didn’t
try to help. By this time Fred had called 911 and they connected him to the
Sherriff’s office and he explained who he was and where and what was going on
with these two. We were concerned about them hurting themselves as well as
others if they got into a car and drove off so intoxicated. The woman finally
got across but was soaked from falling multiple times. A good Samaritan tried
to help the man across and by then the police had shown up and were waiting for
the couple to cross. When they crossed over, we saw the man being handcuffed
and police escorted the woman to their squad cars in the parking lot. Fred told
us that they were very drunk with very slurred speech and they had multiple
bottles of alcohol. Just one other thing we had to deal with out here to keep
people safe and our lighthouse secure. Its just part of our job out here.
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| 24 inch Thick Granite Block Walls of the Lighthouse |
After
the show with the drunks we went back inside and I started dinner. I cooked up
rosemary chicken with mushrooms, garlic, onion and white wine. I also cooked up some of that yummy yellow
rice that Cathy had with her fish tacos. It sure tasted good with rosemary chicken
piled on top. After dinner we relaxed upstairs and chatted a bit. Fred showed pictures of when we first arrived
here and up to the present. We lasted about an hour and off everyone went to
sleep while I stayed up to catch up on the blog. I wrote one day’s blog before
getting too tired to continue. Off to sleep I went but couldn’t sleep well
since I knew I had to get up at 7 am to bake my popovers. I wanted a nice
breakfast to send Kim off on her way. She could only stay one night with us and
she needed to get back home to Denver. We wished she could have stayed longer
but treasured her precious time with us. I finally fell asleep thinking of
puffy, buttery popovers that I hoped would come out perfect and not get stuck
in the pan like last time when I didn’t have any Pam to use.
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| Unusual Sunset |
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