The high temperatures and my inability to get up early has really limited my paddling the last month.  Sat morning there was a club trip scheduled for 7am. I decided I would make the effort to join this trip.  I actually arrived a little early and got a couple of sunrise pictures.  We left the beach at the Emerald Beach Holiday Inn and paddled past downtown Corpus Christi to the aircraft carrier Lexington.  We briefly spotted one dolpnin. He was busy chasing the shrimp boats in the ship channel so we did not get any up close interaction.  We paddled by the Lex and took a brief break on the south end of North Beach.  The trip back was a little hot but we all had a good time.