SWINOMISH VILLAGE, Wash. — Brian Geer is still shaking his head about all that happened a few weeks ago in less than 12 hours.
"When you do this long enough you're like, well, that's the craziest thing I've ever seen, and the next day the craziest thing you've ever seen happens again," Geer said.
In late January, the Swinomish tribal police officer heard a 911 call about a capsized kayaker in Skagit Bay.
He sped to the scene, commandeered a kayak and paddled about 200 yards to Steve Barker.
Barker had been in the 45-degree water for about 45 minutes. The entire time he was being held above water by his girlfriend's son, John, in a separate kayak.
John is wheelchair bound -- his upper body strength saving the day.
"It was just make sure he stays alive because I don't want to be holding on to a dead body," John said.
Geer tied a rope to the kayak and towed both men to safety.
"He was having a good time of it. It was like he was shoveling heavy snow with that paddle," Barker said.
Barker laughs now, but he knows the officer got there as his time was slipping away.
"I wouldn't have lasted very much longer out there," Barker said. "It was so cold. I'm still cold. I probably would've gone under. You'd be pulling my body out of there."
That was the end to what had been quite an eventful day for Geer.
Less than 12 hours earlier Geer was heading home after working late.
He saw a car speeding and driving erratically.
Geer turned the lights on of his unmarked police car and pulled the vehicle over.
"There's a moment when the car is pulling over and you have to be ready for anything," Geer said.
In this case, "anything" turned out to be a woman in the throes of childbirth.
"I could hear her screaming as I was getting out of the car," Geer said.
Less than a minute later Geer had delivered a baby girl.
"The wild thing is I don't think they would've made it to the hospital without the baby being born so it all worked out, and no tickets were written," Geer said with a laugh.
Back at the bay, a very grateful family thanked Geer for his heroic actions.
Geer said the funny thing is, that was his first time ever in a kayak.
Apparently, there truly is a first time for everything especially when those firsts happen twice.
"It was a weird 10 to 12 hours, that's for sure," Geer said. "Sometimes it really is all in a days work. It really is."