{"id":779,"date":"2011-08-03T07:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T07:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2011-08-03T07:47:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T07:47:40","slug":"the-lost-coast-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/the-lost-coast-of-california\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Coast of California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I  paddled the 75 miles of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lost_Coast\" target=\"_blank\">Lost Coast<\/a> of California with three friends, all of us instructors with <a title=\"California Canoe &amp; Kayak\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calkayak.com\" target=\"_blank\">California Canoe &amp; Kayak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/215086_1964488587070_1088538441_31885310_3037579_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1582\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/215086_1964488587070_1088538441_31885310_3037579_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I decided to use the P&amp;H Delphin to demonstrate that it is a great expedition\/playboat crossover.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1584\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC00510-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1584\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1584\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC00510-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surfing one of the many reef and point breaks along the Lost Coast. Photo by Bryant Burkhardt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The plan was to exploit every play spot and the Delphin, despite it&#8217;s full load was really fun.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1585\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC00566.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1585\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1585\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC00566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stunning coastline. Photo by Bryant Burkhardt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We passed mile after mile of stunning coastline and found some wonderful campsites.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1586\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC00580.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1586\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC00580.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of many arches we passed through. Photo by Bryant Burkhardt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is Ghost Point, a &#8216;secret&#8217; surf spot that has earned it&#8217;s place in California surf folklore.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1587\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P7260038.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1587\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1587\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P7260038-1024x736.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"736\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking south from Ghost Point<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">We found this cool cave and I was so busy filming I forgot to watch out for the rock! Check it out on <a title=\"Capsize in a cave\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D9kG5kMQW_8\" target=\"_blank\">You Tube<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">You can read my full account of our journey on or <a title=\"CCK Staff Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/calkayak.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/03\/the-lost-coast-of-california\/\" target=\"_blank\">CCK Staff Blog<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">The Delphin had plenty of space for a multi-day journey and whilst it certainly isn&#8217;t as fast as my Cetus MV, when we found a feature and started to play I was so happy to be in my Delphin. It rocks!<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div id=\"attachment_1589\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_00171.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1589\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1589 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_00171-1024x851.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"511\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thanks to my sponsors!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I paddled the 75 miles of the Lost Coast of California with three friends, all of us instructors with California Canoe &amp; Kayak. I decided to use the P&amp;H Delphin to demonstrate that it is a great expedition\/playboat crossover. The plan was to exploit every play spot and the Delphin, despite it&#8217;s full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}