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review of gopro hd hero vs oregon scientific atc9k mountable waterproof cameras review of delta 10 kayak interview of american whitewater s president and much more issue 6 summer 2011 contents include swimming for kayaking skills surfing baja paddle ergonomics tips for eppie s great race comparison review of pentax optio wg 1 vs olympus tough tg 610 waterproof cameras review of yoga for kayaking dvd and much more issue 5 spring 2011 contents include draw strokes skills article common murres outfitting your boat footbeds review of advanced elements airfusion and much more you can read all the issues for free at http www calkayakermag com magazine html labels kayaking posted by california kayaker magazine 9 25 am 0 comments monday january 03 2011 galapagos land and water ok i saved the best for last the birds in the galapagos were interesting but i am more of a mammal reptile fish person ok when one thinks of the galapagos they likely think of the giant tortoises even the name galapagos is spanish for a type of horse saddle which some of the tortoise shells look like so figured i d start with some tortoise pictures click on any picture to see it in higher resolution here is a close up of another tortoise s head do you think he looks a bit like et there are farms in the area that are in the traditional range for these tortoises and often have a lot of tortoises there so along with growing crops they charge a small fee for tourists to walk around and see tortoises we did have to have a naturalist guide with but much of what they were doing is keeping the tourists from bothering the tortoises though we could still get pretty close when we got off the bus our guide immediately perks up his ears tells everyone to be quiet and motions us to follow him we wondered what was up as we were headed a different direction than most of the other tourists this was what he was headed for the male is much larger than the female so you can barely see her check out the video of these guys make sure you have your speakers on for full grunting effect off to the sea again there were sea turtles all over the place in the galapagos here are three in one picture taken while snorkeling here is a video of one that was not bothered by my swimming next to him here is a pair of white tip reef shark seen while kayaking these guys mostly feed at night so rest in the shallow reefs during the day galapagos shark seen while snorkeling this guy was about 10 or 15 feet down by a sea stack i don t remember if i caught a glimpse or was told they were there by our guide but i dove down and saw them and got a couple of photos it is hard to tell size in this photo but he was maybe 5 or 6 feet long marine iguanas resting on a lava rock shoreline these are the only iguanas in the world that swim out into the ocean to eat seaweed most iguanas live and eat on land the small ones are females where the large green one is a male lucky guy marine iguana swimming as seen from above caught this picture while kayaking this guy was headed back to shore after feeding marine iguana that we saw swimming as we snorkeled this one was also heading back to shore i tried hard to find an iguana eating underwater but never saw one one of the many friendly sea lion looking to play as we snorkeled our guide said that the younger ones often like to play they will swim around you sometimes looking to have you chase them and sometimes they would want to chase you so you would swim underwater and do flips and such and they would stay near and play here is a video of me playing with another sea lion labels travel posted by california kayaker magazine 9 24 am 1 comments sunday january 02 2011 galapagos birds i have a lot of photos from the galapagos too many to do in one posting here so i had to find a way to break them up given that darwin seemed to focus on the finches of the galapagos as a key part of his theory of evolution it only seemed fitting i start with bird photos though he may have started with finches they weren t standouts in my mind so i don t have any finch photos here picture of the blue footed booby which is endemic to the galapagos one of those animals you have to see when you are there there is also a red footed booby but we didn t get to see those ps actually i think it is spelled bubi but that doesn t allow as easily for the corny jokes and t shirts about booby watching and all click on any picture to see higher resolution version continuing with the booby bubi pictures this was a surprise catch for a photo i just blasted away with the camera actually we had 3 cameras with us and took almost 2000 photos sometimes you flash through a photo and don t see something at first this is one of those i didn t see the booby diving until i did a second review of the photo very streamlined shape that the bird is able to get into this was another lucky shot and with a basic point and shoot camera at that this is the same booby shown diving but after he had his meal and was now flying back up to make another dive on some poor unsuspecting bait fish yellow warbler on some volcanic rock at a beach these guys were all over the place and perhaps take the function of pigeons in our country as they were always around watching to see if some scrap of food would drop from us humans frigate birds during breeding the males have large red pouches that they inflate to attract a mate but i am not sure they would be trustworthy mates as they get much of their food by stealing from boobies better check the immigration status of these american oyster catchers they do look a little different than the ones we have in california i don t think ours have the white chest undersides but they do have the bright red beaks always loved the name oyster catcher a catcher to me refers to catching something that moves yet oysters don t move well this one isn t a bird picture but is in the sky this was a shot of our inter island flight between san cristobal and isabela islands the airline that runs these flights has 2 planes a 5 seater and a 7 seater our group of 11 required both and i got to sit in the co pilot s seat that guy with the stripes on his shoulder is our pilot i wasn t really a good choice for this as i am a bit large whenever the pilot banked the airplane the yoke or whatever they call the steering wheel on my side whacked me in the knee and he had to push my knee out of the way to adjust the tail flap fine tune adjustment and if i stretched my legs i would be pushing on the pedals which i am sure would not be a good thing to do so i spent much of the flight trying to stay still labels travel posted by california kayaker magazine 10 12 am 0 comments saturday january 01 2011 ecudador highlands some friends signed up for the galapagos otavalo highlands trip through rei and let us know about it was expensive but we decided this was on our bucket list so signed up to join them another couple we often do things with also signed up so our little group was 6 of the 10 people on the trip this post shows some photos from what we saw in the highlands near quito ecuador where we started our trip hiked around the cotacachi cayapas caldera early on in the trip 6 mile hike but made much harder by being at some 10 000 feet in altitude this is north of quito near otavalo click on photos to see larger size andean condors that we saw on the hike given that there are only 60 70 of them in ecuador we were looking at some 3 4 of the total population also saw some eagles in the area spent a night at the termas de papallacta hot springs resort which is east of quito hotel is at some 12 000 feet in altitude drove uphill from there to do a hike at lagunas de banos soaking in the hot tubs was quite nice but the water was a few degrees cooler than the onsens in japan in the highlands of ecuador the driving style was a bit more aggressive than we were used to particularly when passing this was a switchback area going down a gorge did seem to be newer pavement than many of the other areas but potholed roads sure didn t slow them down and the signs and lane striping all seemed to be suggestions not requirements notice how the bus i am in is smack in the center of the road this is cuy something that is a specialty of the andes in english it is called guinea pig we had heard about it on an anthony bourdain tv show and made a point to try it tastes a bit gamy but not that bad more info http en wikipedia org wiki guinea_pig as_food galapagos photos to come in another post labels travel posted by california kayaker magazine 11 38 am 0 comments wednesday december 15 2010 winter issue of california kayaker available the winter issue of california kayaker magazine is available for download from the website or to be read online by going to www calkayakermag com magazine html contents include skills article on using a greenland paddle gray whales whitewater run on rancheria creek how to make swimbaits dry storage summary outfitting your boat and much more labels kayaking posted by california kayaker magazine 12 26 pm 0 comments saturday november 06 2010 rights of navigation question i went out to yellow bluff in sausalito yesterday friday november 5 to take photographs of kayakers playing in the tide rip that forms there on strong ebb tides saw something which i found to be disturbing which i wanted to run by others and see what they think note to see a larger version of the photos click on the photo and then under actions click on view all sizes flickr changed the system so this is not as easy to do as it used to be this picture above shows the yellow bluff tide rip from the bluff current is going from left to right and creates a choppy condition in this location there are 3 kayakers in the rip though at least one the boat is of a coloring that is hard to see the rip is the roughly triangle shaped patch of rough water you can see on the right side as we look at it is calm water that is an eddy and the water there is actually going the opposite direction from the rip the calmed water outside of the choppy water is going the same direction as in the rip but doesn t have the underwater geography causing the current to form any waves there plenty of open water out in the bay for boats to get through this is not an area of limited navigation kyakers go to play in these waves when conditions are right there is a train of waves that slowly moves forward in the rip which the kayaker can surf but there is also a lot of chop so a place where even experts need to constantly work to control their boats when i am in the rip i keep a good distance from other kayakers for safety reasons empress of sausalito a 90 foot commercial tour boat that does bay cruises parties etc looking to run straight through the rip i took notice because i was surprised such a large boat would be that close to shore and it also looked like he would go close to the kayakers still approaching the kayakers this is looking like he is going to be much closer to them than i would care for close up to show how close he got the three paddlers were all experienced so able to control their boats but what if they had been more novice and got thrown off by the chop or the empress wake empress of sausalito continuing on to presumably its dock in sausalito thankfully no one bumped into another here is a pdf summarizing the rules of navigation i would say that the empress was overtaking the kayaks all where facing the same way though the kayaks were not making any forward progress against the current so this could be argued and that it would have been against rule 8 for passing so close should a collision have occurred so what do you think do you think the empress put the kayakers at undue risk if so what could the kayakers do different next time to help reduce this risk ps one reason i am posting this is to provide specific info for future reference on the empress as others have mentioned times they have had close calls with the empress those times are hear say but should a situation happen in the future by putting what i saw on the web there will be some public info that could possible be used to show a history labels kayaking posted by california kayaker magazine 9 40 am 11 comments thursday september 09 2010 fall issue of california kayaker magazine is available the fall issue of california kayaker magazine is available for download from the website labels kayaking posted by california kayaker magazine 10 28 am 1 comments friday july 16 2010 more whales from kayak heard reports of lots of ways out in monterey bay chasing huge quantities of krill so decided to check it out matt k was nice enough to join me which was good as we would be going very far out over 5 miles from shore see track in picture to the right two videos i took are below the videos are of different individuals so may not even be the same type of whale some conversations going around as to what type of whale they are blue humpback or fin are the most common mentioned the first video showing the fluke looks to be a blue the second video has a larger dorsal fin than would be expected for a blue so perhaps is a fin whale but fin whales don t normally show their flukes when they dive and this guy did and no reports of fins in the area from the whale watch boats maybe a humpback but i got some shots of a humpback in the same area a few years ago and there were much smaller than this video clip at http www youtube com watch v u2cqeex9mqq labels interesting stuff kayaking posted by california kayaker magazine 12 06 pm 2 comments thursday june 10 2010 summer issue of california kayaker magazine is available the summer issue of california kayaker magazine is available for download from the website i am very happy with the content of this issue the writing was good and there is broad coverage of various types of kayaking wish there were a few more advertisements to help pay the bills though hopefully that comes in time labels kayaking posted by california kayaker magazine 10 33 am 0 comments thursday june 03 2010 whale seen while kayaking been a while since i posted sorry about that next issue of the magazine is almost ready to print so to celebrate i went for a paddle during the day yesterday came across a gray whale in the bay got some decent photos and videos i have seen a few dozen gray whales over the years while paddling but these were probaly the bets photos and videos i have ever gotten and didn t hurt to have the very scenic golden gate bridge in the background labels kayaking posted by california kayaker magazine 10 04 pm 2 comments sunday may 09 2010 good camera good price what do you think is this a good camera and a good price looking for a basic dslr this one comes with 1 lens and is this starter kit case dvd etc any good labels misc posted by california kayaker magazine 8 51 pm 7 comments saturday april 03 2010 i m a publisher been a while since i posted something here sorry about that 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