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| Ready to go! GoodGirl loaded up with the kayaks & camping gear. And we're ready to ride up to Tomales Bay! |
Here's where we went:
Fri - biked from SF to San Geronimo
Sat morning - biked from San Geronimo to Nick's Cove
Sat afternoon - kayaked from Nick's Cove to our beach.
Sun afternoon - kayaked back to Nick's Cove
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| On the BART elevator off Embarcadero... the smell in here is wonderful. |
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| walking to our official start.... |
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| by far the worst section of our ride. The clueless tourists on this bridge really makes me not like the Golden Gate Bridge... |
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| second beer stop... @ Iron Springs. |
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| Made it to our AirBnB in time to cool off, take a shower, and get ready for dinner. |
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| at the Two Bird Cafe, which we just walked to. Amazing food. Really... |
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| They even have some wild chickens running around... |
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| the next morning Kimbo wasn't feeling so hot, so we were getting ready to get picked up.... but they were all running late, and so we just started riding. |
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| soon we made it to Point Reyes Station. |
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| for a coffee & muffin stop. |
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| we arrived at Nick's Cove boat launch all around the same time... 2 hours after planned. |
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| Durbo drying out his wings like a cormorant before he can take off... |
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| They were planning on brining a SUP, but they forgot a paddle, so they all squeezed on to the canoe. Not a whole lot of room for error. Wind waves above 4 ft? Forget about it. |
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| Next to our beach, we came across this sick Cormorant. We named him Cory. |
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| we thought he was tangled up in the seaweed, but I think he was just sick. We decided to put him on land... |
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| But he liked chilling on woody. |
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| not sure what this is. Can't find him in the Gordon Sherman Library. |
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| Time for some beers and oysters! I think we were at South Blue Gum Beach. |
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| mmmm.... |
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| ugh... WTF? Mud-ster |
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| We walked back to Cory's beach at low tide, and found him hiding in a cove... |
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| Mmmmm |
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| Dylan trying out some SUC-ing. |
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| Booya! I love canoe camping! |
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| The beach camping life... |
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| Loving the beach fires... A bit later we went out paddling and experienced some amazing bioluminescence. |
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| Beautiful morning. Folks were out taking advantage of low tide to get longnecked clams. Next time? http://honest-food.net/2012/04/10/chasing-the-clam/ http://monkeyfacenews.typepad.com/my-blog/2009/11/bay-area-shellfish-101-1.html http://www.lawsonslanding.com/SERVICES/ACTIVITIES/Clamming.aspx we also saw a few boaters pull up with some nice halibut & sharks. |
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| Hello Sun Dog! |
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| Saw these tracks... coyote? |
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| and some Raccoon tracks... tide was quite low, I think they were going for some mussels... but Cory was gone. |
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| we ran out of fuel, so brekky was served on the open fire. |
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| around this time Dylan started feeling really sick. He thinks it was the oytsers. |
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| notice the green-yellow bile below him... |
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| for this reason it was actually a good thing that Dylan, Kat, & Kate were all in the same boat. Dylan could barely sit up. |
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| and every once in a while, he'd have to tell the girls to lean to one side, so he could hurl off the other... |
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| GoodGirl with 2 boats and a tandem. |
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| this is a great stop in Pt. Reyes Station, FYI. Amazing burgers, beers, and.... |
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| the most amazing ice cream ever. Water Buffalo Ice Cream. Amazing. |
Next time:
- take a SUP! If possible... I got myself a new toy, a 12'6" touring SUP, I'd love to take it there!!!
- don't let Dylan get sick.
- look at the tides for clamming or fishing
- look for bat rays in the shallows at the mouth of Tomales Bay
- take Kai & Nikko on the canoe?
- try to take pics of the bio-luminescence... look into how? Probably need a camera like the sony alpha 7 with a bigger sensor.
- look into some of the other beaches...
- http://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/upload/map_boatincamping.pdf
- stay at Lawson's Landing the day before?
