Downwinding

• WISK (Whidbey Island Sea Kayak) via Island Beach Access provides beach landing information around the whole of Whidbey Island
• Useless Bay (shallow at low tide - Sunlight Beach is better than Double Bluff at low tide)
  • Double Bluff (has parking)
    • Double Bluff County Park at the north end of a very long Puget Sound Fetch to the south. paddle south and downwind back north to the park, popular with kiters (October is “Double Bluff” month)
    • iKiteSurf Dble Bluff
    • Double Bluff Webcam
  • Dave Mackie Park (Maxwelton Beach) (decent amount of parking)
    • downwind approx. 4 miles to Sunlight Beach (very limited parking) or 4.25 miles to Double Bluff Park
• 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 will lose some of your upwind return protection if you go that far north on your downwind legs in the Bay.
• Langley to Oak Harbor - 20 miles. We don't have a report of anyone doing this long of a Saratoga Passage downwinder. It could get somewhat exposed in open water well away from shore or you can take less of a direct line staying closer to the west bank along the way which would increase the trip length by about 1 mile. But in the right conditions (SE wind for one), might be a longer than usual worthwhile downwinder.
• Deception Pass Challenging, technical tidal rip surfing 45 minutes from Bellingham.

Surf/Swell

• Burrows Bay
• Fort Ebey
  • Surf-Forecast
  • WannaSurf
  • Windfinder Wind Forecast
• Joseph Whidbey State Park

Video

• Deception Pass
  • Deception Videos