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Sea Kayaking the Sea of Cortez – Playa el Coyote to Loreto Nov 10-20th, 2010

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So everything worked out well. Matiss felt better, we had all our food, water, gear together and our fantastic couchsurfing host Bill in Mulege graciously offered to give us a ride down to the NOLS basecamp at Playa el Coyote in Bahia Concepcion. We showed up and found Ramon’s cousin Clemente who we couldn’t get a hold of to touch base earlier with but when we showed up he set us up with all the gear we needed. We set off by like 2pm on the 10th of November into the beautiful clear waters of Bahia Concepcion (click any photo below to see entire album).

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Matiss did quite a nice detailed entry of our trip fresh after it as he flew back to Canada when i flew to Costa Rica to start another crazy adventure on Karaka. Below is a great map he created showing our route with campsites and points of interest on a google map. (Also click here to view and read Matiss’s detail trip log on his website)

Click here for a google map of the kayaking route with labeled campsites and points of interest.

We had a hell of a time trying to get out of the bay with the strong prevailing north winds but we finally made it around and had several days of big water requiring us to have very early days and lots of afternoon time to explore the shoreline.

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We met up with Ramon and his NOLS course in San Nicholas, got some more supplies and made it around Punta Pulpito, one of the most exposed points in the Sea of Cortez.

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All in all we had a very excellent trip and made it to Loreto on the 20th of November, left the boats with Ramon’s other cousin Pingui (spanish for penguin) and bused back up to Mulege to stay with Bill again.

For more detail on the trip please read Matiss’s Blog:

http://matisslife.blogspot.com/2010/12/baja-odyssey-pt-3.html

http://matisslife.blogspot.com/2010/12/baja-odyssey-pt-4.html

http://matisslife.blogspot.com/2010/12/baja-odyssey-pt-5.html

http://matisslife.blogspot.com/2011/01/baja-odyssey-pt-6.html

tomorrow morning we attempt to hitch-hike to Puerto San Carlos to meet our next Couchsurfer Staci.

Lake Superior Sea Kayaking – 3370 Lakehead Outdoor Rec Aug 26th to Sept 9th 2010

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So after a busy summer of trips i made my way back to Thunder Bay to lead one of my favourite trips in one of my favourite places. The Canadian North Shore of Lake Superior! and i got to lead it for the second time, this time with one of my best friends, Aaron Nicholson of whom we have lived, studied and worked for the lake for the past few years. We had a small group of 5 students and we really got connect with the lake and everyone had an amazing time despite being wind-bound for 7+ days out of 15 on the second half. We completed a campsite inventory and analysis for the Wilson Island Archipelago now owned by the Nature Conservancy of Canada. To start we had some beautiful sunny warm days with some nice swell and some calms to the crazy cold north winds that came in half way that came in that told us it wasn’t time to move… Lots of cards, food, laughs and sleeping. All in all it was a challenging but fantastic trip. A learning experience for all.

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Key River to Killarney: Sea Kayaking Georgian Bay

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Here is a video we made on this trip. I will be co-guiding this trip this summer with Natalie (see her blog here) and so please come and join us for a fun adventure! We’ll be departing July31-Aug7th and we are running this trip through Northern Edge Algonquin. Join us for an unforgettable experience in the great outdoors!

During my time off last summer I went back to Ontario and did a 5 day sea kayak trip with Natalie on Georgian Bay. We decided this great section of coastline between Key River and Killarney. It was an awesome trip… lots of heavy rain though… we made it to Killarney and hitched back to our car at Key River and picked up out boats, enjoyed some world famous fish and chips and drove back to Dundas. See picture slideshow below.

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