I decided to celebrate St Partrick's day by finishing the intracoastal paddle I had to abort due to my lost keys (see "Lost/Found" trip).  I launched into Packery Channel at the JFK bridge and headed south down the Intracoastal.  Today I had a 10-15 mph north wind and a very slight current both helping me so I thought I would not have trouble making the 6-7 Nm I wanted to cover.  The wind was supposed to drop to a dead calm and then switch to the south just in time for my return trip.  I took several pictures around the marker 71 area (of cabins on the spoil islands and of Nighthawk bay behind the spoil islands).   I got some more pictures around marker 79 (one of my favorite lunch stops) and finally finished up with pictures in the marker 87 area of North Bird Island and the spoil islands leading down toward the Bird Island Basin boat channel.  As usual as I turned for home the wind did not die and in fact seemed to increase against me.  Just before I finished up the 13.7 Nm trip it finally dropped to less than 5 mph.  At least putting the kayak on top of the car was easy even if the paddle back was not.