Kayaking around Blind Bay Shaw Island
For a different little paddle excursion, Blind Bay paddling on/at Shaw Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington State can be a good thing, if all is well conditions in the MBS and on the water etc.
Kayaking the San Juan Islands or what I like to call the Trillionaire Islands can be a good thing, sometimes. Trillionaire because the shorelines are lined with zillionaire pads with the largest collection of no tresspassing signs I have ever seen. What was that old song from the 1960s, “Signs, signs, everywhere signs”. Might think they are all raising marijuana. Kind of get the paranoid feeling that northern California used to have in the 1980s when folks were raising 420 in the woods. Big time keep out vibes back then. Here is 300 people against the billions out here. I get they want to keep it that way. Respect the island and it might respect you back.
Most people I suspect will not see or be bothered by the coldness of the Islands since they will hire out day and longer kayaking tour operators, travel in groups, stay in nice hotels, and paddle way the “F” off the shoreline.
This blog is about budget travel kayaking camping etc. for the rest of us. This post is about if you are paddling by yourself they might allow you to launch into and paddle Blind Bay. Or if you have it together, you could paddle across from Orcas or from the other side of the island where launching is possible at the Shaw Island County Park.
One of kewl features of this particular paddle is Blind Island State Park. There is human powered camping available that you can check out at Washington Water Trails Association, if you can get to Blind Bay.