Trip
Sea Kayak - Hale Passage & Wollochet Bay
This is a 2021 Basic Sea Kayak Student Paddle! All brand new students are welcome to join this paddle. We’ll launch from the Fox 🦊 Island Boat ramp, turn SE paddling under the bridge until reaching Cromwell shoreline. We’ll handrail shoreline until reaching concrete bulkhead under undeveloped slide area. We’ll stop for short Bio-break if anyone wishes to. Shortly we’ll continue until end of bay for lunch spot. After lunch we’ll continue in clockwise out to Montgomery Heights boat ramp. Then crossing Hales Passage to Fox Island; we’ll handrail islands shoreline until reaching the boat ramp.
Contacts
- Sat, Jul 10, 2021
- Tacoma Branch Sea Kayaking Program
- Sea Kayaking
- Adults
- Sea Kayak II/III
- Easy
- Mileage: 8.0 nm
- Maximum Wind: 10 kts
- Maximum Waves: 1 ft
- Maximum Currents: 1 kts
- Pace: 2.5
- 3 (8 capacity)
- FULL (4 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
Meet at Fox Island Boat Ramp 10:00am
Launch at 10:45am
Their aren’t any Bath rooms at launch but their is a porta-potty at the Fox Island Sand Spit Park less than a mile from Launch site.
All Tacoma Sea Kayaking Student are required to have there Paddle Completion Sheets filled out and ready for discussion at lunch time.
Be sure to bring a lunch and something hot to drink.
Proper Immersion clothing required!
Bring if you have them:
VHF Radio
There are not any rental business anywhere near this paddle destination
Besure to come with the Expectation of having a FUN day on the water with new friends!
Required Equipment
These three essentials plus The Ten Essentials are required on all sea kayaking trips. All but the whistle and clothing should be provided with any kayak rental.
- U.S. Coast Guard approved Personal Flotation Device (PFD)
- Paddle
- Appropriate clothing for the conditions encountered seasonally