Kayaking at Russian Gulch (West Coast Van Trip – Post 8)

It would not be wise to take our little blow-up kayak out into the ocean proper, but we figured we could handle the relatively flat water of this cove.

Here we are getting it ready to be blown up. It’s easy and fast to inflate with a foot pump.

There were nearly no waves at all, so launching from the beach was easy.

After awhile we decided to paddle around a near point to go into the next cove over.

We needed to go fairly far out in order to stay well wide of the point, so as to not be pushed into the rocks by the waves.

We got most of the way out there, and realized the waves were bigger than we were comfortable with. We quickly rowed back. We don’t have any pictures of all that because we were too busy paddling! However, after we got safely back into the cove, John took this short movie.

Then we spent some time trying to get that perfect picture of seaweed. (I never did get one as good as that first one I missed.)

Then we headed to shore. Here’s John trying to wash the mud and sand off the kayak in a muddy and sandy area.

Lol, I think he was just making it worse! I suppose I could have been helping rather than laughing at him and taking pictures, but I figured it was a lost cause.

Fine, hon, do whatever you want. I’m going to sit on the van steps and take a selfie for my blog.

I’m looking unusually wild. Yep, that’s me, the bad-ass wilderness woman. LOL, not really, but I did go kayaking in the Pacific Ocean!

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