An abbreviated paddle w BASK out the Gate, extended to an Angel Island loop to take advantage of the glassy calm bay and slack current. a few hundred meters outside Horshoe Cove returning from Angel Island we were visited by numerous pods of harbor porpoises close enough to hear them breathing (see article about their recent return at http://www.npr.org/2011/12/28/143857342/60-years-after-leaving-porpoises-again-play-in-sf-bay)