Sunday, August 23, 2009

KAYAKING HUMBOLDT BAYS SLOUGHS

Rented Kayaks for an entire day. We started in the Humboldt Bay and went up the Eureka Slough. Its important to kayak at high tide so you dont get stuck in the marsh
fog bank sitting on the coast

old dock?
nasty fog go away!


birds on an old tree












barn

love the sun
about to go under HWY 101
birdie
old railroad bridge that we went under
Humboldt Bay Marina
back of the infamous Carson Mansion
click on that site to learn more and see cool pictures

After a couple hour break our plan was to go out to the Mad River Slough and watch the sunset, however a HUGE bank of fog rolled in. We thought it would be cool to go anyways and it ended up feeling like Pirates of the Carribean. We even saw 5 otters! There is a video at the bottom of 2 of them swimming around...
looking toward the dunes, the ocean is on the other side





the sun is trying to shine
Looking toward the lumber company
otter swimming

Otter!
awww


Here are 2 otters swimming around. They go under and pop up on me a lot so its hard to keep track of them, but overall pretty sweet being 10 yards away from sea otters

Saturday, August 1, 2009

KAYAKING STONE LAGOON

Friday morning I went kayaking on Stone Lagoon for $5. We had an instructor teach us the basics of kayaking and got to cruise around the lagoon for 3 hrs. Lots of fun, plan on going again soon!
Stone Lagoon

the ocean is over that break

that black dot in the water is an otter.....bummed I didnt get an actual shot of one

heading out

looking toward the 101


heading into the grass

hard to paddle through this stuff, I dont think I was supposed to go into it. oops







here is a campground that has about 15 sites. You can only get to it by kayaking across the lagoon.
my favorite picture
in the campground
view of the lagoon from one of the camp sites



the instructor threw these toys in the water to help practice maneuver techniques in case you needed to make a rescue

Chelsee
Rina, Chelsee and me



On the way home the heard of elk were hanging by the 101







Big boy