Hello to everyone.
My wife and I have been folding kayakers for 20 years. We bought our first and only folding kayak, a Nautiraid Grand Raid Expedition, 20 years ago this summer from Peter Schwierzke of the Western Folding Kayak Center in Somerset, Ca.
In those days of yester-year (prior to 9/11) each person could fly with three 70lbs pieces of checked baggage (for
FREE!!!) plus your carry on and "personal item". My wife and I took advantage of this wonderful benefit and have kayaked Resurrection Bay out of Seward, AK and up the east shore and part way across the north shore of Kauai before a storm overtook us and cancelled our carefully made kayak camping trip around Kauai. Still we had a wonderful time.
With today's travel restrictions (I don't see us kayak camping Kauai anytime soon) we have 2 favorite places to kayak - Waldo Lake (just over 2 hours travel time) and anywhere in the San Juan Islands. We had plans to go camping and kayaking at Waldo earlier this month, but the snow melt was late (a LOT of snow this year), which opened the camp grounds several weeks late and, according to the ranger, the mosquitoes are
horrendous (not unlike the arctic). We had camped early at Waldo about 35 years ago - never again!!! The mosquitoes were worse than anything we had experienced in lower Alaska!!! Still, Waldo Lake is a beautiful lake to paddle from late August until the snows return.
Waldo Lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_Lake is one of the clearest lakes in the world .... and deep. In the morning, with no wind and clouds reflecting on the water, it's like paddling thru the clouds, but you can see the bottom more than 80 feet below you. Very cool!!!
Here's a pic of our gorgeous 20 year old Nautiraid:
