Albion Open 7-25

Much MUCH more to share!!!

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What's up with Andy's boat--shots of it upside down and water in the hull. Hope its OK....the boat, not Andy....hahahahaha!

lets say andy found some water in his hull!  i'll leave the rest to him.

Ya know, I'll let Andy say for *sure* what happened...

I mean, I'm not going to point fingers or anything...  

  But there were some shifty guys running around...

REALLY SHIFTY!!!   

Here are a few of my pictures.  Mostly taken along the river on Sunday.  So nice to be in the sun and warm!
The cove on Sunday morning.

Mooch

Fishin Jay enjoying a beer on the float.

Ben enjoying the scenery.

Heading up river, the free ride!

The seals were fun to watch, and they seemed to enjoy watching us!

Anita having fun!

Jay enjoying the stand up paddle.

Ben picking berries for Anita, what a nice guy!

At the berries.

Jay finishing the paddle.  Then we sadly said our good-byes and had to head home.

big thanks to the NCKA at large for the great documentation at Albion.
had to wear the cape all weekend and wasnt able to make it.
congrats to the winners!

Thanks to Sean for organizing another great event.  I had a great time meeting up with old friends and meeting some new ones.  Congratulations to the three finishers.

I tried my crab pots for the first time with little to show for it.  Did get some rock crabs and one legal Dungie.  You could load up easily--one time had 25 dungies in less than 20 minutes on the pier--but all undersized.

Had a good time catching some fish on the tourney day, so relaxed and let my hands heal the rest of the trip.

Hey Jay and Theresa - My GF and I saw you two makin' the In-n-Out run on Sunday in Rohnert Park!

We were headed to Outback. Tried to wave, but you didn't see...lol. 

Hey Jay and Theresa - My GF and I saw you two makin' the In-n-Out run on Sunday in Rohnert Park!

We were headed to Outback. Tried to wave, but you didn't see...lol. 

Sorry we missed you! 

We drove into the parking lot then promptly left. That place was a mad house! There must have been 50 cars in line in the drive through and not a single parking space available to walk inside. I even had some turd honking at me because I didn't pull forward in line, which would have left me blocking two lanes of oncoming traffic on the main road. Crazy...

The first thing i did after unloading on Friday was head up the river. It was a pretty sweet trip...riding the tide up and also riding it back. A definite plus for this location.

Here's some pics.

More river pics.

And a few more...

Some random campground images.

Pic 1 = Lard! Mmmmm.
Pic 2 = Scary Guy
Pic 3 = The Bridge
Pic 4 = Our Host
Pic 5 = The Beach
Pics 6, 7 = Ben, Nate, and I geting ready while Adam plays the cow bell.
Pic 8 = Riding the Escelator
Pic 9 = Heading In

while Adam plays the cow bell.

WE NEED MORE COWBELL!!!!

It was the biggest Kayak Fishing Tourney in NorCal History!! and am sooooo proud to have been there to see it all go down without a hitch.......getting over 80 yakers to show up was the easy part, i'm sure.

Paddles Held High to the top three finishers....they worked very hard for EVERY FISH hooked!!
We're ALL winners after the top three got there plaques&prizes.......where does stuff like this happen?  I've never seen anything like it before?  Maybe at Burning Man, but i've never been to one, so i deem these first pics.........
~~~Burning Baby~~