Chasing Gray Whales March 21 2009

Beth, Rob and I launched the boats at Langley, WA after visiting one of the fine coffee&pastry shops (nice caffeine and sugar buzz) and headed north along the east side of Whidbey Island looking for the gray whales that feed in the shallow waters of Saratoga Passage. A beautiful bright, sunny day with little wind and temps in the 50's, great paddling weather. After a 30-45 minute paddle north we cross the couple of miles of Saratoga Passage to the west side of Cameno Island, another favorite haunt for the feeding grays... After a rest stop to soak up the sun we paddled south along Cameno for several miles but no luck in spotting the big fish. One more stretch stop and we head back to Langley.

Here's the url for the site that tracks whales in the Puget Sound, Oregon and BC "http://www.orcanetwork.org/"

Salt Water Paddle Feb 18, 2009

Been a while since I added something on my blog. Lead a WKC trip from Salt Water State Park to Redondo and back. A group of 8 hardy souls on this first club paddle for '09. It's an early season, dust off the kayak for some folks while other join me every year... kind of a reunion paddle. Today it was a bit breezy with the 15-20kt wind coming from out of the north, made some fun wave action on the paddle back to Salt Water. All survied and we celebrated with High 5's having cheating death one more time... :-)