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| - | ==== 'Round Lummi Island (Or Dean's trip to hell) ==== | ||
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| - | **Larry Goolsby** \\ | ||
| - | 06/17/07 #3155 | ||
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| - | I was stoked to see that some of the guys were wanting to do a long\\ | ||
| - | paddlde on Father's Day from Marine Park, out around Lummi Island and\\ | ||
| - | back again. A mere 30+ mile jaunt. The weather prediction was for\\ | ||
| - | mild winds (wrong) and temps in the 60's (wrong again). We (Dean,\\ | ||
| - | Mike G., Abe and I) left Marine Park shortly after 0830 in a steady\\ | ||
| - | rain with 10-15 mph winds from the south. Dean had this great idea of\\ | ||
| - | going counter-clockwise and fighting the current up Hale Passage so\\ | ||
| - | that we could ride the tide down the other side. The other 3 of us\\ | ||
| - | were so stupid that we agreed to do this. First, you gotta picture\\ | ||
| - | this: you couldn't see Lummi, Portage or Eliza Islands from Marine\\ | ||
| - | Park. That should have been the first clue of what lay ahead. We\\ | ||
| - | fought beam waves (1-3 footers) all the way across to Portage. You\\ | ||
| - | got this warm fuzzy feeling when the clouds parted and the islands\\ | ||
| - | finally did appear on the horizon. Then this warm fuzzy feeling\\ | ||
| - | disappated when you saw the big rollers in Hale Passage. This was one\\ | ||
| - | of those high volume tides and Hale Passage was a roller coaster of\\ | ||
| - | standing waves. At first it was fun and I thought we were making some\\ | ||
| - | great speeds until Dean reported that he just hit 5.9 mph surfing\\ | ||
| - | down a wave. We were barely moving and we had miles to go. Then the\\ | ||
| - | crap hit the fan when Abe (in his sea kayak) broached on a 5 footer\\ | ||
| - | and got rolled over. He was out of his boat and trying to get back in\\ | ||
| - | like it was a surfski (not going to happen). After a couple of missed\\ | ||
| - | tries in big water, Dean finally came alongside his boat so that he\\ | ||
| - | could stablize it long enough to get Abe back aboard. We then sat in\\ | ||
| - | the dead center of the channel because we didn't know which way to\\ | ||
| - | go: back to Portage or over to Lummi. I figured that if we went back\\ | ||
| - | to Portage, we would have called it a day (a bad day at that).\\ | ||
| - | However, Abe shot over to the Lummi side to dump out the water in his\\ | ||
| - | cockpit, with the 3 of us in tow. We were wet and cold but I don't\\ | ||
| - | think there was enough money to pay Abe to cross that channel once\\ | ||
| - | more so we voted to continue our trip around the island. It did not\\ | ||
| - | get better after this.\\ | ||
| - | Going around the top of Lummi was the only calm water we were to see\\ | ||
| - | during most of this trip. We had planned on riding the ebb current\\ | ||
| - | down the west side but our delay in the channel and some poor timing\\ | ||
| - | placed us on the west side in the rain with 15 mph headwinds and the\\ | ||
| - | current against us. This was just nasty. It took forever to get to\\ | ||
| - | Lummi Rocks and we had to pass them up in favor of landing on Lummi\\ | ||
| - | Island instead in order to get out of the wind. Skirting the\\ | ||
| - | shoreline of Lummi proved to be faster than being out in the open so\\ | ||
| - | we were once again making some headway. We finally came around Carter\\ | ||
| - | Point and actually got some good rides with some westerly swells that\\ | ||
| - | were being sent throught the pass between Eliza and Lummi. We then\\ | ||
| - | stopped on the north-eastern tip of Eliza for one last pee break\\ | ||
| - | before doing the last crossing. We were all so cold by now that\\ | ||
| - | nobody could find their penises so we just drank more fluids and took\\ | ||
| - | off into a 15+ mph SE wind for Fairhaven. If you have ever crossed\\ | ||
| - | from Eliza to the mainland, you'll know that the southeast wind is\\ | ||
| - | the worst wind to do this in. This was just a rude ending to an\\ | ||
| - | already tortuous trip. We finally ended up aiming for Govornor's\\ | ||
| - | point because the 2-4 foot waves were steep and we were too tired to\\ | ||
| - | take them on the side for that 5+ mile crossing. Dean headed off in\\ | ||
| - | his own direction while Mike, Abe, and I headed to Govornor's to get\\ | ||
| - | to calmer waters before turning north to go home. The last 3 miles of\\ | ||
| - | our trip was the best with nice rollers from the SE driving us back\\ | ||
| - | home. You could paddle to catch one and then rest as you rode the\\ | ||
| - | front of a wave for a good distance. Our total distance was 32 miles\\ | ||
| - | and we had to paddle 29 miles before we got the rides we wanted.\\ | ||
| - | LG | ||
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