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If you live in the Seattle area, Lake Sammamish is a great place to have a relaxing and not too challenging paddle (assuming the weather is otherwise nice, of course). If you want to make a day of it, there are some opportunities coming up for exploring the lake. On March [...]

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Heck yes, you can go kayaking anywhere – even Iowa, where the roads are so straight you can fall asleep while driving and still be in your lane an hour later. Not only that, but Iowa will show you beginning kayakers a good time for free.
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I’ve seen this amusing shark buoy a couple times now. This one is in Lake Washington, somewhere off the West shore. I also saw one in the San Juan Islands. I think.
There are many myths about shark buoys, including the idea that they eat people. In fact, cases where people are [...]

Someone at a kayak shop tipped me off years ago that any street in Seattle that ends at water can be used for public access. This is good to know if you are inclined to explore the billions of bodies of water in the Seattle area. Seattle is such a fun town, and [...]

Mercer Slough is a small slough that covers part of Bellevue, Washington, across the lake from Seattle. The mouth of Mercer slough is near where the I-90 Bridge touches land on the east side. It’s a nice and simple paddle – safe, innocuous, and easy to access. If you want a relaxing [...]

One of the first places I went paddling when I got my first kayak is to the underwater forest in Lake Sammamish, Washington. Lake Sammamish is on the east side of Lake Washington, across from Seattle. The underwater forest is a bunch of old growth trees that somehow ended up in the lake, [...]

It’s that time again – time for interest in kayaking to fall off a cliff. I understand that people do go kayaking in the colder months but I also understand that these people are insane. I imagine they are salty seafaring types, bearded and weathered, with a permanent layer of salty crust on [...]

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