jongela.com » San Juan http://jongela.com Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:08:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Kayaking to miss seeing whales~ http://jongela.com/2009/09/kayaking-to-miss-seeing-whales/ http://jongela.com/2009/09/kayaking-to-miss-seeing-whales/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:20:08 +0000 angela http://jongela.com/?p=300 A couple of weeks ago, Jon and I went with my group of interns to the San Juan Islands.  We got to try sea kayaking for the first time!  When we booked the trip our main reason for going was to see whales, but we weren’t so lucky.  We saw a bunch of other things though like seals, starfish, jellyfish and some cool tide pools.  Kayaking in the open ocean is really hard!  It’s mildly terrifying being tossed around in the ocean like a little cork top, but it was a lot of fun to see all the cool things we did. 

The beginning of our trip wasn’t very smooth.  We headed out of Redmond a tad bit late and on the way Jon was stopped and we got a speeding ticket :(   It was a big trick, there was one cop radaring people and then about 10 cops lined up behind her just pulling people over.  After that we were really late so we didn’t have time to park our car before the ferry left, we drove the car on and it cost $90!  Rip off!  Everything with the trip went smoothly after that though. 

Lighthouse Jon discovering the tidepools Captain Jon Kelp out of water Before we head out Starfish up close Mini Jelly Kayak car rack Salt mine Mommy and Baby Seal Purple starfish Kelp forest Bullwhip kelp Jon at the rudder ]]> http://jongela.com/2009/09/kayaking-to-miss-seeing-whales/feed/ 2