Adventure Kayaking: Russian River Monterey
With 20 years experience of sea kayaking off the central coast of California and in many of its bays and estuaries, I took twenty of my favourite trips and turned them into a guide book. The routes are from the Russian River to Monterey, and several of the major lakes inland to the east; Mono, Tahoe, and Pyramid lakes.I cover how to get to the best places, where to put in, tides and seasonal factors, where to camp and find supplies, where to rent equipment and get professional instruction. There are accurate maps for every trip in the book.Adventure kayaking has a five star rating on Amazon.com. It is full of drawings of wildlife you may see on your trips. Every chapter has a sidebar story that's quite adventurous, including on in which I set my kayak on fire while leading a trip for an editor of San Francisco Magazine. She was with me to write about my "paddle birding" program. The book is updated with every reprint: What's most likely to change is the restricted use of areas that are becoming too popular, such as Elkhorn Slough.For more information about me and my books, please visit my website.