The West Coast Sea Kayak Symposium and Deception Pass

UNDER THE BRIDGE AT DECEPTION PASS
The WCSKS was quite an event! Pete and I volunteered on Thursday.... which involved unloading HUNDREDs of boats as the vendors came in. They all rode the same ferries, so it was all or none at the same time! 1800 participants later, we all went home with new skills, new friends and a multitude of new aches and pains. We found a wandering Minnesotan many of you know, Liza Gould, on the beach at WCSKS. She graciously volunteered to escort us through Deception pass, then managed to shred her finger lighting a flare in class. Liza, we hope you heal fast! Liza passed us off to a wonderful, sweet local paddler, Tom Banks. We met at Bowman bay, and with a marginal weather forcast, set out and added Deception Pass to our captures. What a Place. Its beautiful, and with a slack tide, easy to navigate. Our entrance around the point involved rebound waves at 3-4 feet, and our exit through Canoe Pass gave us waves at 5 feet or better, so big in fact, that the boys put on their helmuts and went back to surf. I elected to portage back to Bowman bay, and Pete and Tom spent another hour surfing and playing off the point. It's 8 o'clock am and Pete is still sleeping!