Sea Kayak - Penn Cove

Meet at 8:30 am at Monroe Landing (500 W Scenic Heights Rd, Oak Harbor, WA 98277); launch time will be 9:30 am. Feel free to arrive earlier if you need more than an hour to prepare.

The plan is to launch from Monroe Landing at 9:30 am, heading west (counterclockwise) around Penn Cove. We will get to check out the famous Penn Cove oyester beds, and possibly interact with some seals along the way. After about 2 hrs of paddling, we will stop in Coupeville for about an hour for lunch, where options include a couple of local restaurants or bring your own lunch. Top tip, the ice cream shop opens at noon.

Following lunch, we can take a quick 30-minute paddle 1nm straight across Penn Cove back to Monroe Landing or take a more adventurous route, paddling 1.5nm farther east to Long Point where a driftwood-covered beach (and maybe a grounded sailboat?) give us a chance to rest and enjoy the view before paddling across Penn Cove another 1.5nm straight back to our put-in.

Either way, expect to be off the water by 3:30 pm.