January 13 2002
Last October, I cut my foot badly on a submerged shipwreck on South Rodeo Beach; fortunately, surgeon Dr. Lawrence Ford did a great job sewing it up.
As a thank-you, I took him and his dad Trevor kayaking out to Brooks Island to help them prepare for their planned trip to Espiritos Santos Island off of La Paz.
We launched at the Richmond Marina under almost summer like conditions NW wind 5-15 knots with clear skies
We paddled under the old Ford Motor Assembly Plant. A recent hundred-millon-dollar plan to renovate the building to condos has failed.
We paddled across the entrance to Richmond Inner Harbor
Next we checked out the nation's newest national park
Rosie
the Riveter National Park
The Wapama was inside one of the former liberty ship
bays. At the height of productivity, one new Liberty ship was launched
every day.
The
Wapama has a bit of history
We stopped on Brooks Island for a lunch of Thai curry chicken over steaming rice (served hot courtesy of a single-burner propane stove).
After lunch we spotted some seals on our way around
Bird Island.
When we got back to the put-in, Lawrence and Trevor
practiced their sit-on-top re-entries.
Always check weather and ocean conditions before you paddle!
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