Going Places: Tales from the road: Kayak touring

Published May 5, 2004 12:00AM

Ride along with Outside’s writers as they scour the globe for the ultimate in outdoor travel, noting the best sea-kayaking opportunities along the way. Fourteen trip ideas from the Outside files.

Hawaii: Follow the velvety cliffs of Kauai’s Na Pali coast; Day trip to uninhabited Mokolua Islands just off the over-inhabited Oahu coast; Explore the coast of Molokai, Hawaii’s last unspoiled island
Pacific Northwest: Paddle a wildlife refuge at Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands north of Seattle; The Gulf Islands of British Columbia offer 200 islets and protected channels
Alaska: Experience a seal’s-eye view of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve; The vast Kenai Fjords National Park presents a range of trip options; In Prince William Sound it’s just you, the whales, and the glaciers
Secluded beaches: Massive dunes lend a coastal feel to Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes lakeshore; The palm-fringed beach of Santa Catalina Island is a slice of the tropics; Float the salt-water marsh and lagoons of North Carolina’s Bear Island
International: Tim Cahill goes sea kayaking in Baja, Mexico. Plus, access and resources information.; Greece: a seven-day village-to-village paddle along Crete’s south shore; British Virgin Islands: five days around Anegada, near Virgin Gorda; Belize: four to 12 days island-hopping the Caribbean atolls and cays

*Paddling through the Outside* archives**

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