:::YAKLOG:::
:::the paddling adventures of rick doucette:::
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to the best of my recollection, using whatever random digital camera files i've found lingering on a computer or 3, these are the different spots i've been kayaking so far this year. pretty sure i'm missing a trip or 2, but if i don't take at least 1 picture, chances are pretty high i won't remember later. to atone for this, i'll toss some hikes/walks in for good measure :)
| 12.31.06 | West Seattle - Richey Viewpoint around Alki & down to Seacrest Park, then to Jack Block Park & back. | saw a bald eagle chillin' in a tree at Alki Beach |
| 12.30.06 | walked around Discovery Park - down to the beach trail & back to the loop trail... and then... | my pal Chip found a shortcut back to the parking lot |
| 12.17.06 | walked around the Discovery Park loop trail | . |
| 12.2.06 | Duwamish - from the boat ramp under the Highway 99 overpass all the way down to the I-5 overpass | abused the tidal goodness to get a little further than usual... |
| 11.25.06 | Larabee State Park - south of Chuckanut Bay | w/a bit of snow on the trees... |
| 11.18.06 | Magnolia - 32nd St. beach up around Discovery Park | enjoyed a rain-free saturday... |
| 10.28.06 | Tillamook Bay, Oregon - paddled along the north shore of the bay until the wind/waves/current got too tough, then played around the NE corner for a while. | followed by a grilled cheese sandwich + tomato soup at the Tillamook Cheese Factory |
| 10.21.06 | West Seattle - Richey Viewpoint down past Lincoln Park | was followed by a harbor seal for about a half-hour |
| long break | busy with video stuff for a youth conference... and stuff. | long story(s). |
| 9.23.06 | Jones Island - paddled from Deer Harbor on Orcas Island up to Jones, then down around Yellow I. + the Wasps | lookie here! or here! |
| 9.16.06 | Golden Gardens | . |
| 9.10.06 | Dash Point SP around Browns Point to Tyee Marina | saw some eagles & seals |
| 9.9.06 | Saltwater State Park down to (almost) Dash Point | hit some NASTY waves |
| 9.7.06 | Seacrest Park down the Duwamish Waterway & around Kellogg Island... and back | . |
| 9.6.06 | Alki-ish - paddled from Richey Viewpoint out about halfway to Blake Island, rode some waves towards Lincoln Park for a bit, then back to Richey Viewpoint | . |
| 9.5.06 | Alki-ish - paddled from Richey Viewpoint over to Alki Beach, turned back to watch the sunset, and went back around to the other side & followed the shore for a bit | . |
| 9.4.06 | Mountain Lake - paddled counter-clockwise around the interior of the lake - also at Moran State Park on Orcas | uh... see also photos |
| 9.3.06 | Sucian Islands - kayaked around a cluster of islands about 2 miles north of Orcas Island - photos | . |
| 9.2.06 | Hiked around Cascade Lake & up to Cascade Falls at Moran State Park on Orcas Island - photos | Parker was with me |
| 8.27.06 | Elliot Bay - Magnolia to Pier 66 | . |
| 8.26.06 | Blake Island [circumnavigation, yo] - took the ferry over to Southworth to make it an easier trip | my kayak book SUCKS! |
| 8.20.06 | San Juan Island - Fourth of July Beach to Cattle Point | solo paddle on the south end |
| 8.19.06 | San Juan Island - guided Orca-watching tour from Smallpox Bay to Deadman Bay, plus out from the shore to float for a while... for whale-spotting purposes | w/some Mars Hill peeps - saw at least 3 orca - woot! |
| 8.19.06 | San Juan Island - Smallpox Bay to Lime Kiln - basically took the same route on a solo paddle in the morning as the guided tour we took in the afternoon. that, and i... | ...lost my waterproof digital camera - ho hum :( |
| 8.18.06 | San Juan Island - Roche Harbor to English Camp | solo paddle on the north end |
| 8.15.06 | Tampa Bay, Florida - a channel by Mad Paddlers down into Old Tampa Bay - across to Ben T Davis Beach & over to where it ends & the causeway continues. rented a Wilderness Systems Tarpon 170 for the journey. | saw some crazy-huge pink pelican here - plus a bunch of heron, flamingos, etc. - was out for about 4.5 hours |
| 8.14.06 | Haulover Canal, Florida - took the Bioluminescent tour from A Day Away Kayak Tours - crazy-cool glowing water, yo! they put me on a fairly lame sit-on-top (bleh.), but the fish, etc. darting around in the water was very, very cool. think: glowing bottle rockets underwater, yo. | visited some Manatee & got about 40 mosquito bites before paddling - woot! |
| 8.14.06 | Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida - this probably shouldn't count as a kayak trip, but it was fun to paddle thru their fake African river for about 20 minutes. | saw lots of fun aminulz. duh. it's a zoo. |
| 8.13.06 | Key West, Florida - rented a kayak (a Perception rec.) from Lazy Dog Kayak Tours & paddled over to the Gulf of Mexico [k, so i just went under a bridge & about half a mile out], then back to the Atlantic side to play around in the mangrove channels, etc. also explored under a bridge, thru a canal, and into lots of more mangroves & a salt marsh thingy in the middle of the island. | yes, this was the second trip that day. but hey--when will i ever be in the keys again? saw some manta (?) ray action... um... and lots & lots of fishies down in the water. this was a 3-hour tour... |
| 8.13.06 | Key West, Florida - rented a kayak (a Hobie sit-on-top) right at Smathers Beach & paddled right around the beach area. was out for just under 2 hours, but didn't go very far. the rental peeps were anal, and wanted me to stay close to the shore. plenty of stuff to look at under the water... | saw a small [2.5ft?] hammerhead shark very close to where everyone was swimming & snorkeling :) |
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| ho hum. | took a bit of a break from kayaking. partly depression, partly getting junk ready for the fine arts festival in orlando | :( |
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| 7.22.06 | Ballard - 14th St. ramp towards the locks, then back & over to the west side of Lake Union, then back | walked around a lot too - around Greenlake, etc. |
| 7.21.06 | West Seattle - Richey Viewpoint to Duwamish Head | . |
| 7.16.06 | Blake Island back up to Eagle Harbor at Bainbridge | (with peeps from Mars Hill) |
| 7.15.06 | Blake Island - did a bit of "hiking" around the island - mostly on the Cross Island trail + Main Jeep Road | (all by my sel--el--elf) |
| 7.15.06 | Bainbridge Island - re-attempt, this time we actually made it from Eagle Harbor down to Blake Island - woot! | (with peeps from Mars Hill) |
| 7.14.06 | Bainbridge Island - tried to paddle down to Blake Island, but the waves got a tad large for the liking of some... ended up turning back & camping at Fay Bainbridge SP | (with peeps from Mars Hill) |
| 7.9.06 | Lake Union > Portage Bay > Arboretum | (Travis stalked the Ducks) |
| 7.8.06 | Duwamish - Seacrest Park down the west waterway & around Kellogg Island | (ho hum) |
| 7.4.06 | Woodward Bay to the head of Henderson Inlet down in Olympia | (not quite as weepy) |
| 7.3.06 | West Seattle - Cormorant Cove down past Lincoln Park | (all alone & weepy) |
| 7.2.06 | West Seattle - Richey Viewpoint over to Alki Beach | (Travis joined me) |
| 7.1.06 | Everett - paddled around the north end of Jetty Island | (Nevin joined me) |
| 6.27.06 | Duwamish - Don Armeni Park down the west side of Harbor Island down to Kellogg Island | (today was still toasty-warm, but not quite as bad as mon.) |
| 6.26.06 | West Seattle - Cormorant Cove around past Alki Beach | (today was hot! in the 90's) |
| 6.25.06 | Tacoma - put in about halfway up Ruston Way & paddled up to Point Defiance Park (went a bit past Owen Beach at the state park - where i was hoping to launch) | (tip: the beach gets crowded! i launched from a small beach next to CI Shenanigans) |
| 6.24.06 | Larabee State Park - south of Chuckanut Bay | . |
| 6.22.06 | Cormorant Cove to Lincoln Park (for some reason, i thought it would be cool to cover different stretches of the west seattle shoreline over several days) | (now that i think about it, it's actually less cool and more neurotic. oh well.) |
| 6.21.06 | Lincoln Park - south-ish towards Seahurst Park | (saw a bald eagle) |
| 6.20.06 | Burien - Seahurst Park (icky, icky goo!) | (saw a few heron, 1 harbor seal, and 5-6 otters) |
| 6.18.06 | Bellingham Bay - Cornwall Ave. Beach thru Squalicum Harbor & about half-a-mile past it. | (saw a heron & around 5 harbor seals) |
| 6.17.06 | Drayton Harbor - Semiahmoo Park "clockwise" around the harbor; up Dakota Creek; back around to California Creek. It's right along I-5, just a tad south of Canada. | (saw about 5 bald eagles, a coupla hawks, several dozen heron, and 10+ harbor seals) |
| 6.15.06 | Magnolia & Elliot Bay Marina | . |
| 6.14.06 | Lake Union - Sunnyside ramp > around the lake | . |
| 6.13.06 | West Seattle - Richey Viewpoint > south | D'OH! forgot my camera |
| 6.11.06 | HIKE - Wallace Falls | . |
| 6.6.06 | Harbor Island circumnavigation - Seacrest Park around the H.I. marina to the East Waterway & then around H.I. & back | (saw a pair of bald eagles perched on top of a cement ship) |
| 6.5.06 | West Seattle - Richey Viewpoint around Alki Beach | . |
| 6.3.06 | Golden Gardens - down past the lighthouse at Discovery Park; back up around Magnolia & around the bay towards the locks; back around the marina | . |
| 5.30.06 | West Seattle - Don Armeni to Cormorant Cove | . |
| 5.29.06 | Duwamish Waterway - South River St. ramp > south - as far as the current would let me get... | . |
| 5.28.06 | HIKE - Fragrance Lake | (with my nephew Ryan) |
| 5.27.06 | WALK x2 - North Lake Whatcom Trail; Boulevard Park | (with mom, niece, nephew) |
| 5.21.06 | Golden Gardens - up beach, down past sea lions & towards the locks; then back up along the marina | (with my co-worker pal Travis) |
| 5.20.06 | HIKE - Lake Serene | (with co-workers LeAnn & Parker) |
| 5.18.06 | Golden Gardens - up beach, down past sea lions & around the marina | . |
| 5.17.06 | West Seattle - Cormorant Cove to Lincoln Park | . |
| 5.14.06 | Chuckanut Bay - Marine Park up along the shore, over to Chuckanut Island, around & back | . |
| 5.13.06 | Lake Washington - Madrona to Seward | . |
| 4.30.06 | West Seattle - Don Armeni to Cormorant Cove | . |
| 4.23.06 | Golden Gardens - up the beach & around up north | . |
| 4.22.06 | Duwamish Waterway - South River St. ramp > south | . |
| 4.21.06 | West Seattle - Don Armeni down to Harbor Island | . |
| 4.16.06 | West Seattle - Lowman Beach - south past the ferry | . |
| 4.8.06 | Chuckanut Bay - didn't get too far - the wind picked up & i had to turn back | . |
| 3.26.06 | HIKE - Discovery Park | . |
| 3.25.06 | West Seattle - Seacrest Park thru the Duwamish to Kellogg Island | (with my pal Jerry) |
| 3.11.06 | Ballard - Ship Canal to Locks & back via south side of canal to the 14th Street boat ramp | . |
| 3.4.06 | Ballard - Ship Canal to Lake Union (circumnavigation) & back to the 14th Street boat ramp | . |
| 2.19.06 | Lake Washington - Magnuson Park > north | . |
| 2.12.06 | Magnolia to Elliot Bay (to Pier 66 i think) | . |
| 2.11.06 | West Seattle - Richey Viewpoint to Lincoln Park | . |
| 1.15.06 | Golden Gardens - up the beach & around up north | . |
| 1.8.06 | Ballard - Ship Canal to Locks to Fremont Bridge & back to the 14th Street boat ramp | . |
thanks for paddling by! >:O)