Sunday, July 02, 2006

Traveling Alpaca Channels the Channel Islands


Traveling Alpaca is just as active as the next guy... so naturally he was very excited to take a full-day kayaking trip to the Channel Islands, off the coast of Ventura. We booked this trip through Channel Islands Kayak Center (http://www.cikayak.com/), which provided the 11 of us with two guides and arranged for a private guided kayak trip for us. Hooray!

The water was a bit choppy, but everyone hung in there as long as they could. We kayaked into and out of a few caves and fought back the darned kelp that kept getting tangled in our oars. The water was very clear, especially near the caves. We even saw an enormous orange starfish a few feet below the surface.

Afterward, we went to The Hungry Hunter (http://www.paragonsteak.com/) for some delicious surf and turf. A perfect day.