With 20 years experience of sea kayaking off the central coast of
California and in many of its bays and estuaries, I took twenty of my
favourite trips and turned them into a guide book. The routes are from
the Russian River to Monterey, and several of the major lakes inland
to the east; Mono, Tahoe, and Pyramid lakes.
I cover how to get to the best places, where to put in, tides and
seasonal factors, where to camp and find supplies, where to rent
equipment and get professional instruction. There are accurate maps
for every trip in the book.
Adventure kayaking has a five star rating on Amazon.com. It is full of
drawings of wildlife you may see on your trips. Every chapter has a
sidebar story that's quite adventurous, including one in which I set my
kayak on fire while leading a trip for an editor of San Francisco
Magazine. She was with me to write about my "paddle birding"
program. The book is updated with every reprint: What's most likely to
change is the restricted use of areas that are becoming too popular,
such as Elkhorn Slough. People in the San Francisco Bay Area looking
for an organized sea kayaking club should visit
www.bask.org.
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