{"id":27,"date":"2014-04-04T16:29:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T23:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2014-04-04T17:54:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T00:54:59","slug":"kayaking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/?page_id=27","title":{"rendered":"Kayaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/me-kayaking-withwhales-0011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67\" alt=\"me-kayaking-withwhales-001\" src=\"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/me-kayaking-withwhales-0011.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/me-kayaking-withwhales-0011.jpg 960w, http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/me-kayaking-withwhales-0011-300x71.jpg 300w, http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/me-kayaking-withwhales-0011-624x148.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a>I started getting serious about sea kayaking in 2002, when I started taking lessons &#8211; having taken at least 6 day-long lessons that year. Finished that year with a week long kayak camping trip in the San Juan Islands in Washington State.<\/p>\n<p>A few years later, I finally bought my first kayak.\u00a0 This started a trend that didn&#8217;t stop until I had a storage area packed with kayaks.\u00a0 Thankfully I have dialed back my gear acquisition a bit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Have continued to paddle more and more, and have since taken many overnight trips and expeditions, including two separate week-long trips in the Sea of Cortez, a 10 day trip down the Columbia River (<a href=\"http:\/\/peter-singlespeed.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/columbia-river-water-trail-basics.html\">blog report here<\/a> and published article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wavelengthmagazine.com\/2009\/JA09\/JA09_Columbia_River.html\">Wavelength Magazine<\/a>), and a week long trip along Big Sur (which was shortened by weather to 4 days),<\/p>\n<p>I have been working on improving my skills enough over the years such that I have become a part-time instructor and guide for various shops in the area, have received my Level 3 certification as a sea kayak instructor by the ACA, and received my Wilderness First responder certification. I have also started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calkayakermag.com\/\">California Kayaker Magazine<\/a>, a regional print and online kayaking magazine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/me-kayaking-pourover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-59\" alt=\"rock gardening\" src=\"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/me-kayaking-pourover-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/me-kayaking-pourover-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/me-kayaking-pourover-624x468.jpg 624w, http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/me-kayaking-pourover.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I prefer the more adventurous aspects of sea kayaking, especially rock gardening and surfing.\u00a0 The picture to the left is me riding a wave as I run a pour over. I am one of the original 6 who founded <a title=\"Neptune's Rangers\" href=\"http:\/\/neptunesrangers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neptune&#8217;s Rangers<\/a> ocean rock gardening team, and continue to paddle with them whenever I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started getting serious about sea kayaking in 2002, when I started taking lessons &#8211; having taken at least 6 day-long lessons that year. Finished that year with a week long kayak camping trip in the San Juan Islands in Washington State. A few years later, I finally bought my first kayak.\u00a0 This started a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/69"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}