Outside San Diego

The family made a trip to San Diego Bay, via Tidelands Park on Coronado Island to try out my 7-year olds new Kayak.  She received a well-used Ocean Kayak Scrambler, and a new “kids sized” Werner paddle for her birthday last week, and as been itching to get it wet.  We packed up the 3 kayaks, and headed to the bay.

The weather was perfect for kayaking, despite the cooler overcast weather the day before, and the bay was fairly smooth with only a small breeze.  We paddled out from the sheltered cove, and my daughter was having some stability issues with her seat riding too high.   We worked this out, and she was off and going.

The smaller sized paddle was perfect for her, she was able to control it much easier, and did not tire as easily. We bopped around the bay for a while until the girls decided that relaxing on the beach looked good to them, so we landed and they spread out their blankets and pulled out the pails and shovels and prepared to enjoy a perfect so-cal Sunday.  I decided to get some exercise and paddled my Tarpon for an hour or so around the bay, burning out my paddling muscles that have not been used for a while.