Captain Joe had invited me to lead a writing workshop, not beside the slough, but on it. An eager notebook-toting group assembled themselves along the boat’s benches, and we slowly headed out into the long, wide wealth of water for the two-hour trip.
In 2007, at a meeting of volunteers organized by the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Robert Scoles, a retired Santa Cruz County sheriff’s deputy, stood up and asked if anyone