general kayaking tours in the area

does anybody ever do any general kayaking trips in the area?
i have been wanting to take just a tour with the kayak and didn't know where to go ?
i have done the elk horn slough and that was a ton of fun

Depends on how far you want to go but up here near Sacramento there is the Cosumnes River Preserve which is an excellent paddle especially when it's windy.  Most of the year the river sit below the levee and trees that line the levee.  The entry point is at the Consumnes River but a short paddle down stream you hit the Mokeolume (sp?) River.  Easy launch on a dock and a now concrete walkway so bring a dolly.  I've done this trip with rookies and experienced paddlers and both enjoyed the trips.

I'm right up the road about 5 miles from it so PM me and maybe we can head out there even without fishing gear.  You can fish there but has to be from the water only no bank fishing. 

I don't know where you live but, if you are anywhere around Tomales Bay, there are some great places there.  You can check out Drakes Estero, Hog Island, White Gulch, or Estero Americas.  All great areas to Yak.  One of the more calming trips is to put in at the oyster company (with a few oysters on board) paddle to the middle of the estero and have oysters and a mini bottle of champagne. Or, Leaving from Nick's Cove, you can check out Hog Island and straight over to White Gulch.  There is one of the biggest herds of elk in California living in the area.  If the time is right they are bugling and carrying on.  My wife likes to do the yak version of Sunday driving.  Her mantra is... It's not being there, it's getting there. If you are into SINKs, Blue Water Kayaks does tours, rentals, and training in Inverness.

Greg

There's a pretty good book for general kayaking trips called "Guide to Sea Kayaking Central & Northern California: The Best Day Trips and Tours from the Lost Coast to Morro Bay" by Roger Schumann and Jan Shriner. There are forty trips detailed (mostly ocean but also bays, estuaries and lakes), each trip being a single chapter containing a simple map, an overview, highlights, skill rating, trip duration, tidal information, cautions, special planning needs, launch sites and a mile-by-mile description of the trip. I believe it's pretty common in local bookstores.

Gerry

Monterey Bay Kayaks and Kayak Connection in Santa Cruz both offer a number of different tours.  I thnk Aquan in Mt View sponsors tours as well,  Mooch?

Allen

Another book worth adding to the shelf is "Paddling Northern California" by Charlie Pike (Morris Book Publishing, LLC, 2001).

What, you thought I was going to beat a dead horse again?

i think we moght try that point reyes it sounds like a lot of fun
ellk - nicks (do they have a bar?) - clammin it all sounds like fun

has anyone clammed before it seems liek fun
let me know if anyone has any info about this
i know nothign about it 1st time
but it is some sort of fishing so im in

  I clammed once many years ago at Bodega. We got limits of nice geoducks, made some fine chowder. But I'm the only one in my family who cares for clams, so I haven't repeated the experience. I remember it as moderately hard work (soft bottom on a minus tide, hip boots sucking mud, lots of probing and digging), cold, messy - but fun. From what I've heard, you can also pick up geoducks around Salt Point.