Welcome to Kayak Virginia Beach.
KayakVB is a running account of my kayak trips in Southeast Virginia,The Eastern Shore and Northeast North Carolina. I'm providing a source of flat-water kayaking resources for the average paddler, based on my experiences in these waters. My trip reports consist of launch sites, GPS Tracks and maps, and photos linked to the GPS map location. I do try to get on the water at least once a week so, year around. I try to go to a different location every time, but I do tend to spend a lot of time on or around Back Bay Virginia.
One of the great things about living in Southern Virginia Beach, is that there are plenty of places to put a boat in the water within minutes. Once in the water you are short distance away from the peace and quiet afforded by the various preserves an and sanctuaries in the area. Back Bay, North Landing River, Northwest River, and the Great Dismal Swamp all either run through, adjoin, or are in or on one of the many Federal, State, or Private wildlife sanctuaries in the area.
If you have any comments, input or suggestions feel free to let me know.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Chesapeake Yachts Inc
1700 Shipyard Road, Chesapeake, VA 23323
This year the paddle will be a 10 mile paddle along the beautiful ICW from Chesapeake Yachts, 5 miles to Great Bridge Locks and back. There be a park at the GBL that has restrooms & an area that ye may use to take a break.
In association with this event, the Pirates Of Lynnhaven will be having an online auction to begin March 1 and end April 30 @ 8:00pm. A list o' auction items will be placed here with bidding taking place for each individual item in the Pirate Auction Forum.
This year the POL also have an E-Giving website set up to make the donation process easier. You can go to OS Pledge Site to make their donations. If you would prefer to submit a check, money order or cash, they can do that as well and they will collect these funds at the event on May 1.
Last year the Pirates Of Lynnhaven raised over $4000 for Operation Smile. This year the goal is to make a 5 figure donation to their organization.
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This site KayakPaddling.Net was sent to me by a reader of this site, has some nice animations of basic paddling technique. Thanks Rick
Latest Trips:
Altons Creek - North Landing River - Barge Graveyard - 1933 Monopoly Invented
First Phonebook Published 1878 - North Landing River
Phonograph Invented 1877 - Smiths Creek Northwest River
U.S. Invades Grenada 1983 - Ashville Bridge Creek
Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River 1609 - Back Bay
1979 SkyLab de-orbited - Back Bay - Shipps Bay - Peters Cove
1654 Louis XIV crowned king of France - North Bay, Mill Creek
Alaska Pipeline completed 1977 - Ashville Bridge Creek - Muddy Creek
I am doing a re-write of the launch site section, and if you have any feedback or comments, head over to kayakvb.net and let me know your thoughts.
Site News
2010-03-09
I have not had the time to re-write what I have wanted to re-write, and I have found that my old image code is not playing nice with newer larger images, they really look like doo doo...
So going forward I have opted to use a sub-site trips.kayakvb.com, to deal with the trips, it is canned software, and allowed me to provide a better experience for the reader...
I will continue to build and maintain the launch site database here for the time being, but I also have ideas to improve that as well...
2008-11-23
This whole re-write thing has been taking much longer then I originally planned, and things have changed so much I am thinking of dumping what I have done and starting over. I have made some updates on the launch site pages, I dumped the yahoo maps for google maps, and added a link to get google directions for the launch sites. I added another 7 launches yesterday, and looking at it I have really expanded the scope of the site, so I am thinking of restructuring the whole thing and putting more effort into my other site kayakva.com. kayakvb will not go away, just re-focused to VB or hamptonroads
Places to paddle in Southeast Virginia:
Virginia Beach:
Back Bay, North Landing River, Ashville Bridge Creek, Pocaty River, West Neck Creek, Oakum Creek, False Cape, Drum Point, Horn Point, Little Island Park, Lotus Garden Park, Hell Creek, Munden Point, Mill Landing, Blackwater Creek, Alston's Creek, Owl Creek, Rudee Inlet, Princess Anne Wildlife Management Area, London Bridge Creek, Lynnhaven River, Milldam Creek, Pungo Ferry Road, Back Bay NWR, Lovitt's Landing
Chesapeake:
Northwest River, Smiths Creek, Indian Creek, Dismal Swamp NWR, Indian Creek
North Carolina:
Knott's Island, Tull Bay, Mackey Island NWR
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