Kayaking Echo Bay

Laura Domela — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:06:44 +0000

This morning we left Fossil Bay and headed around the corner to Echo Bay for a change of scenery. We grabbed a mooring ball, made brunch, and then inflated our new Sea Eagle kayak for a test paddle. It's fantastic! We paddled 2.5 miles around the bay:

I love getting up close to these alien landscapes out here:

It's so nice to have a kayak again! This one inflates and deflates really fast, and we were 25 minutes from unhooking it from the top deck to fully inflated, outfitted, and in the water ready to go. Not bad for our first time with it. (And that's with the manual foot pump…just wait 'til we get the electric pump out here!)

And brunch was delicious! A bed of wilted spinach, then fresh crab meat, two poached eggs, topped with hollandaise sauce (awwww, no chives), served with a side of leftover roasted potatoes from last night's dinner, and some greek yogurt with blueberries and raspberries. Super yum, and good fuel for the paddle.

It's still pretty choppy in here, so we might head around to the back side of the island to Shallow Bay, and then get in a nice afternoon hike.

Kayaking in the Sammamish Slough

Laura Domela — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:39:44 +0000

Today we went for a little late morning kayaking excursion with Tiffani and Deke. We took our Hobie Tandem Island in tandem kayak mode (no mast, sail, or outriggers) and brought up our inflatable tandem for them to try out. We took it all down to the Sammamish Slough and paddled/pedaled around for a couple hours.

First we went out into Lake Washington, watched a sea plane land, and then decided to head upstream into the slough a bit instead.

Tiffani and Deke taking photos of the sea plane landing:

We took a little fork off to the left and eventally it ended in a tree-blocked alley with a giant blue heron on the other side of the trees. We watched it for a while before we turned around and headed back out into the main slough. (Heron is right in the middle of the photo):

Here's the track of today's paddle:

After kayaking we went into Kirkland and had beer and burgers (for lunch/dinner, since it was 4 or something by that time) at the Lodge in Kirkland. They've got something like 60 beers on tap, and we all really liked our food. I read some of the reviews on Yelp just now and I think our experience was much better than any of the recent reviews. Our server was awesome, the beer was great, and the burgers were excellent. We head up to Whidbey Island tomorrow, and I think it's gonna be fish and veggies all week for us!

kayak – Riveted

Kayaking Echo Bay

Kayaking in the Sammamish Slough