Sea Kayak - Chuckanut Bay

Meet at Wildcat Cove boat ramp in Larrabee State Park at 9:00am so that you have plenty of time to prepare your boat and kit in time for our launch one hour later.

As is usual on Mountaineers sea kayaking trips, boats, equipment, food, and water will NOT be provided by the trip leader.  Please remember to bring your own supplies, kayak, and gear or make arrangements to rent and transport whatever you will need for the trip.  Also, bring your Discover Pass and $5.00 for the park's boat launching fee.  Dry suits required.

Route: The plan is to paddle north from Wildcat Cove and explore the area around Governor's Point and Pleasant Bay.  Then we'll head over to Chuckanut Island.  After lunch and some exploration on foot, we'll head on up to Clarks Point to view the interesting formations in the rocks there.  For bonus points, be prepared to argue in favor of the fossil, concretion, extraterrestrial intervention, or whatever other hypotheses you believe may explain what can be seen in the cliffs there.  We'll then work our way around to the controversial "Teddy Bear Cove" for a break and then follow the coastline back down and around  to Wildcat Cove.

I expect this sea kayak trip to have this difficulty and these conditions (view the sea kayak difficulties definitions on our Activity Types, Difficulties & Prerequisites page):

• Difficulty: SK II+
• Wind: 5 - 10 kts
• Waves: < 1ft
• Currents: <1 it
• Distance:  ~ 8 nm
• Pace: moderate