Last night had more ridiculous cards. The funniest story (that I can safely retell) would be the time we were playing Hold 'Em and so long as everyone kept checking, Matt kept putting down cards. More, and more cards. Eventually he even took the face down pile and put them up too, we must have had a dozen or more cards on the table. It was all kinds of silly.

Stayed up until about 12:30 reading, woke up a little after 10. I guess a few people saw a whale way way out, but the most interesting thing I've seen yet today would be the crows. I've heard of this behavior, but never seen it personally. They're picking up clams and dropping them on rocks to open them up. According to Sam, the groundskeeper here, they don't do it in the summer, only in the winter. Denny hypothesized it probably has to do with the lack of food in the winter. So several of us went out and looked and took pictures, Matt even took his tripod out to get some good shots. Pretty cool to watch. I was hoping to get one in flight with a clam in the mouth, but no such luck, unsurprisingly. Today's weather is relatively calm, still windy, but not as bad as it's been, and no precipitation so far. Wouldn't be bad for a hike, but my face was mad enough at me for how long I took pictures (granted, many of them are near identical).

Tuesday, January 12th, roughly 11:40 -11:45 AM local time