The timing was right: moderate tides + perfect weather. We decided to launch from the Shine Tidelands area and paddle beneath the Hood Canal Bridge. Waters are not always calm enough to kayak in this area; the tides and currents can move pretty fast through here and the water can be quite choppy. The noise of the traffic overhead on the bridge is deafening! Got some good pictures looking up at the bridge, the mountains, some very cool starfish (Pycnopodia helianthoides–or sunflower star), my partner completing a kayak roll in fine style, and a friendly seal that followed us for quite awhile. Great day! Worth sharing!
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Kayaking Beneath the Hood Canal Bridge
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Kayaking Among Clouds in Port Angeles
A perfect day for a short paddle in Port Angeles Harbor, Wa. Lots of seals, fish, and birds. A gorgeous day with dramatic cloudscapes and reflections on the water.
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Dungeness Bay Birds: Waterfowl World from a Kayak
The best way to watch waterbirds is from a kayak! A perfect day for kayaking to the Dungeness Lighthouse and back, riding the tide out and then riding it back in, revealed extensive mudflats in the shallow bay and also a huge variety of birds enjoying the warm weather and plentiful opportunities for fishing. Dungeness Bay is home to the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge and over 250 species of birds.
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Kayaking Port Angeles Harbor
A beautiful spring day in the Pacific Northwest provided a great opportunity to watch the ship traffic in Port Angeles Harbor from the cockpit of a kayak!
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Paddling with Seals
An August afternoon Mountains hidden behind the haze of summer; the tiny glimmer of a lighthouse, reflecting like a star in the distance. Water calm enough to float a feather. And then… A sudden splash echoes across the silence. A head emerges And then another . . . And another… SEALS! Lots of them! Too [...]
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Kayaking at Crescent Beach
Hope you aren’t tired of pictures of Crescent Beach. Here are a few from the opposite side: from the water. Father’s Day was one of those opportunities when the sun came out, the yard work was well, not done, but enough for now, and hey – it was Father’s Day – time to take time [...]
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Paddling Dungeness Bay in Mid-March
We launched our boats close to home in Dungeness Bay, bordered by the Dungeness Spit, the longest natural spit in the world, held together by 10 miles of driftwood, and guarded by the Dungeness Lighthouse and a wide assortment of birds, seals, and even an occasional coyote and sea lion. My husband built our boats: [...]