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
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
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