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Cape Flattery and San Jaun Islands

Went to Seattle for memorial day, my best bud lives on Lake Sammamish.  Had quite the extravagant plan for the weekend that went loosely as:

1. Wakeboard Friday morning on the Lake.
2. Camp at Lake Ozette on the way to Cape Flattery
3. Swim/Kayak to Tatoosh Island in the Pacific....
4. Back to Seattle and head up to San Juan Islands for sailing.....

So, woke up Friday morning, put in the Supra boat and boarded a little, then started heading up to Tatoosh Island for the goal of the whole trip..get to Tatoosh Island.  Left Seattle at around 3:00pm and took the ferry..

it took a little longer then we thought to get to Flattery so we decided to camp at Lake Ozette.  Very peaceful lake.... Woke up the next morning, proceeding to some non-eventful kayaking and ploddingly made our way to Cape Flattery trail head which is actually located inside Makah Indian Reservation.  We reach the Cape Flattery trail head, unload our kayaks and wetsuits and proceed to the most NW point in the lower 48. 

We get to end of the trailhead, traverse a cliff with a rope, head down the cliff and put start evaluating what kind of situation we got ourselves into...

After much debating, we decide the currents and ocean conditions (plus having 2 people swim b/c of the fact we only had 2 kayaks for 4 people + gear) was a very bad idea.  We decide to find another spot, so we all hop in the ocean (2 people in wetsuits, 2 in kayaks) and try to locate a good place to camp.  After a little searching we find this beach surrounded by cliffs about 1/2 mile from our ROCK POINT, and decide to haul our gear to the beach.  This beach was surrounded by all sides and had multiple waterfalls falling from cliffs, a nice campspot (high enough for high tide not to sweep us away),  a couple caves, and complete isolation.  So after the kayakers found this spot we decided to have 2 people swim the 1/2 mile and have 2 people carry gear on the kayaks...After 3 hours which consisted of 3 trips for the kayakers (yes i was one of them), we finally made the beach...

Woke up to bad weather, 8 foot swells, and one heck of ride out of the beach.

The next day, after settling down, got the sailboat out of Anacortes, WA. And went for a quick day sail to James Island.

 Last pic I promise

Ah, the sweet San Juans..

 

Posted at 12:43AM Jun 01, 2007 by Eric Shobe in Personal  |  Comments[1]