Enjoy great spring paddling in the Puget Sound waters. The Jetty Island Race is on April 24, 2010, at 10 AM. The race distance is 5 miles, circumnavigating the island. Jetty Island is a two-mile-long artificial island created as a jetty to protect Port Gardner, Everett’s sea port, from the open waters of Possession Sound. [...]

The spring of 2010 is predicted by weather experts to be mild and dry along the Washington and British Columbia Pacific coasts due to the warming of surface waters in the Pacific Ocean east side. This is caused by the El Nino effect. This is good news for sea kayak enthusiasts who like to travel, [...]

This Saturday, February 6, 2010, the La Conner paddle race is on. Be at the starting line before 10 am; race meeting at 0915 at the La Conner, WA, boat ramp, under the orange arched bridge. This is a Sound Rowers event,  www.soundrowers.org
The course heads down the Swinomish Channel, going west past Goat Island, turn [...]

This is the time of year to paddle along Washington’s extended sloughs and deltas to observe arriving migratory birds. Many of the migratory birds use open bays, delta channels, and sloughs as stopover places before they continue on further south, while others stay and winter here. The Skagit-Stillaguamish, the Snohomish, and the Nisqually are especially [...]

Nestled just under Mount Baker and Mount Shuksan in the North Cascades mountains Baker Lake is magnificent. Take your single or tandem self-propelled vessel and enjoy the Fall foliage at its best and some majestic mountains and forests in their natural surroundings.
From WA hwy 20 go north on Baker Lake Rd. Put-in at the south [...]

Go paddle beautiful , Bellingham, Washington this Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009.  The Lake Samish Roe race is on this Saturday.  It is open to any self-propelled vessel. The race is a 5.5 miles around the lake. You do not have to be first.  Just do it, and enjoy paddling with great people and in a [...]

Coming Soon by Murrelet Publishing!
November 2009
Sea Kayaking From Mountains To Ocean
Reflections on watershed ecology in the Washington Pacific Northwest
by Dan Baharav
The Lush and green Pacific Northwest is a sea kayaker’s Eden: the geography between the Cascades uplift and the ocean shoreline is diverse, wild, and magnificent. Traversing it is the Interstate 5, a major artery of [...]