South of the power plant the coastline is rugged.
But we found several places a kayak can land.
And camped in one of them at Double Point, just a few miles from a Nuclear Power Plant.
Beautiful evening sunlight on the cliffs.
A rock that looked like a hand reaching out of the sand.
Morning light as we paddled south.
The lighthouse and the end of the breakwater at Port San Luis.The Point Sal expedition pictures continue here.
We could not resist this sign advertizing a local kayak rental outfitter.
Joan Wiener was knocked out of her boat by a wave that almost got me as well.
Here she is being rescued by Penny Wells and back underway again.
As soon as I saw this nest of little arches, I had to zoom in for a landing
and take a picture back out through them.
This large rock is practically hollow, creating a big cave that I paddled through.
Two pictures back through the hollow rock from the back.
The view east and west behind the hollow rock.
Penny Wells exiting a double-door cave.
The view out the east and west exit to the double-door cave while standing
on the beach inside.
One cave leading to a sinkhole looked too rough to paddle into.
On the way back we paddled close to a harbor seal with a small baby seal pup!
Meanwhile, my sister Margie took these pictures from the shore of the
kayakers as we came in for a rough looking landing.
One kayaker, named Bruce, miraculously survived a very large breaking wave
to get zoomed safely up onto the beach.
Finally, I came in last and made a very easy and controlled landing.
Afer all the excitement, my nephew Michael and niece Sara tried out
two kayaks in the calm water of a nearby creek.
The next morning Don and I went accross the Port San Luis Harbor to
explor the breakwater and the inaccessable (by land) beach at the base
of the jetty.
I sat under the breaker for a while waiting for a wave to break over
it and get me wet, but sayed disappointingly dry.
We went out to the end of the breakwater and looked down the back and front
end of it.
Don out past the end of the breakwater.
Then we landed on the beach at the base of the breakwater to explore.
Just north of the breakwater is the old lignthouse, now on private
property and unapproachable.
