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| - | <font 12px/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Photo: Ana Swetish - Deception Pass at dawn - Click to enlarge</font> | + | Photo: Ana Swetish [[https://youtu.be/JFmtnjE5F0U|Deception Pass at dawn video]] - Click to enlarge |
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| * Wikivoyage [[https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Whidbey_Island|Description of Whidbey Island]] | * Wikivoyage [[https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Whidbey_Island|Description of Whidbey Island]] | ||
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| * [[https://www.mountaineers.org/activities/trip-reports/sea-kayak-whidbey-island-circumnavigation|4 day circumnavigation of Whidbey in Sea Kayaks]] | * [[https://www.mountaineers.org/activities/trip-reports/sea-kayak-whidbey-island-circumnavigation|4 day circumnavigation of Whidbey in Sea Kayaks]] | ||
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| * [[http://www.islandbeachaccess.org/WISK/index.php|WISK]] (Whidbey Island Sea Kayak) via Island Beach Access provides beach landing information around the whole of Whidbey Island | * [[http://www.islandbeachaccess.org/WISK/index.php|WISK]] (Whidbey Island Sea Kayak) via Island Beach Access provides beach landing information around the whole of Whidbey Island | ||
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| * [[:whidbey_beaches|Public Beach Access Map]] | * [[:whidbey_beaches|Public Beach Access Map]] | ||
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| * **Bush Point** - Jim Schulz: "… I have done laps south of Bush Point a few times there’s about 7+ miles of fetch from the S to Hansville but I don’t think any of the wind swell from Edmonds makes it there. I was at Bush Point last weekend and there was a 1.7 mph flood tide when I left and it was blowing 30 at Marrostone Point. It got up to 1.9 knts after I left. I think it can hit 3 knts during a big tide change. The flood tide was hitting Bush point and going SW about a ¼ mile or so offshore going 5 knots so, must be more with a big tide change. The wind wasn’t perpendicular to the tide near Bush Point which usually means funky waves, and it was. Steep, Stacked, and not much width. The tide rip at the point was determining the direction of the waves and not the wind. There is 30 or 40 yards between the point and the tide rip where there’s flatter water where I was paddling upwind. I wonder about Driftwood Park, If the tide there would be almost perpendicular to the SW wind the last mile or so. I think that farther offshore in the channel from Bush Point or Lagoon Point would be better but that’s a lot of exposure." | * **Bush Point** - Jim Schulz: "… I have done laps south of Bush Point a few times there’s about 7+ miles of fetch from the S to Hansville but I don’t think any of the wind swell from Edmonds makes it there. I was at Bush Point last weekend and there was a 1.7 mph flood tide when I left and it was blowing 30 at Marrostone Point. It got up to 1.9 knts after I left. I think it can hit 3 knts during a big tide change. The flood tide was hitting Bush point and going SW about a ¼ mile or so offshore going 5 knots so, must be more with a big tide change. The wind wasn’t perpendicular to the tide near Bush Point which usually means funky waves, and it was. Steep, Stacked, and not much width. The tide rip at the point was determining the direction of the waves and not the wind. There is 30 or 40 yards between the point and the tide rip where there’s flatter water where I was paddling upwind. I wonder about Driftwood Park, If the tide there would be almost perpendicular to the SW wind the last mile or so. I think that farther offshore in the channel from Bush Point or Lagoon Point would be better but that’s a lot of exposure." | ||
| **South swell from Edmonds seems to reach western parts of Whidbey from the southern end up to Useless Bay (but how much and in what conditions does swell make it to the section between Double bluff and Bush Pt.?) ** | **South swell from Edmonds seems to reach western parts of Whidbey from the southern end up to Useless Bay (but how much and in what conditions does swell make it to the section between Double bluff and Bush Pt.?) ** | ||
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| * **Mutiny Bay **- boat ramp w/ spacious gravel parking lot. On a south wind you can probably do laps, protected by the shore going upwind then turn and downwind at some angle back into the bay, rinse and repeat, kind of like using an eddy to go upstream. You might get downwind legs up to almost 2 miles but you may lose some of your upwind return protection if you go that far north on your downwind legs in the Bay. | * **Mutiny Bay **- boat ramp w/ spacious gravel parking lot. On a south wind you can probably do laps, protected by the shore going upwind then turn and downwind at some angle back into the bay, rinse and repeat, kind of like using an eddy to go upstream. You might get downwind legs up to almost 2 miles but you may lose some of your upwind return protection if you go that far north on your downwind legs in the Bay. | ||
| * Jim Schulz: "I would like to try Mutiny Bay Boat Ramp, paddle S toward Double Bluff which is 300 ft high and treed so there shouldn’t be much wind then turn N just before the Point and surf to Bush Point Boat Ramp." assuming S wind, approx. 1 mile upwind then 4.5 miles downwind | * Jim Schulz: "I would like to try Mutiny Bay Boat Ramp, paddle S toward Double Bluff which is 300 ft high and treed so there shouldn’t be much wind then turn N just before the Point and surf to Bush Point Boat Ramp." assuming S wind, approx. 1 mile upwind then 4.5 miles downwind | ||
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| ===== Tidal Race/Tide Rip ===== | ===== Tidal Race/Tide Rip ===== | ||
| - | * **[[:tidalrace:deception_pass|]]** Challenging, technical tidal race surfing 45 minutes from Bellingham. | + | * **[[:tidalrace:deception_pass|]]** Challenging, technical tidal race surfing 45 minutes from Bellingham. |
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| * [[https://www.windfinder.com/forecast/fort_ebey|Windfinder Wind Forecast]] | * [[https://www.windfinder.com/forecast/fort_ebey|Windfinder Wind Forecast]] | ||
| * **Joseph Whidbey State Park** | * **Joseph Whidbey State Park** | ||
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| ===== Video ===== | ===== Video ===== | ||
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| * **Deception Pass** | * **Deception Pass** | ||
| * [[:tidalrace:deception_pass_videos|]] | * [[:tidalrace:deception_pass_videos|]] | ||
| - | * [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFADvIYspNJHWKrgvKv_SEoe9iSESQBwW|Deception Youtube Playlist]] | + | * [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFADvIYspNJHWKrgvKv_SEoe9iSESQBwW|Deception Pass Youtube Playlist]] |
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