The damage from backing into the carport had left me without a way to get the kayak to the water for 8 days.  Luckily Ken Johnson returned from his Florida kayaking trip just in time to get me back into the water before I went completely stir crazy.  He picked me up at 8:30 and we headed down to the Corpus Christi Marina boat ramp for a short bay paddle.  The wind speed had not taken its normal overnight drop.  Instead it had held steady around 15 mph for the entire night and was forecast to get stronger as the day went on.  We expected some pretty good waves, but not exactly the wind we got.   It was blowing hard enough that we paddled out right up against the breakwater for a little protection.   We exited the breakwater and turned back SSE to paddle directly into the winds and waves.  It was hard work and I turned to make a surfing run back after about 3/4 NM and Ken followed.  The weather service showed steady wind around 20 mph and gusts to 31 at about that time.  We surfed past the main marina entrance and on into the 3rd one.  We paddled on the protected side back to the main entrance and then headed out into the bay again.  We made a 2nd surfing run back to the 3rd entrance and then decided to just paddle back to the launch on the protected side.  It was protected from the waves but we still had that wind right in our face most of the way.  The waves were not well formed, but there were sets of 3-3.5 footers that allowed us to catch some pretty good rides.  They were not the easiest waves to catch so I was pretty tired after the 2nd surfing run and really tired after paddling straight into the wind back to the launch.  Even tired, I felt great being back on the water again.