Kayak Virginia Beach Information Net

It has been just over 2 years since my last trip to Lake Drummond, and it was nice to see that the new Route 17 had opened, and the City of Chesapeake came up with a great idea of the old route 17. They have converted the majority of the old road into a linear park, paralleling the Dismal Swamp Canal. The trail is intended to support a myriad of activities, and is open from sunrise to sunset. I can’t remember of this is my 5th or 6th trip out here, but all the other times I have launched here, I was usually the only one in the parking lot, maybe one other car/truck in the lot, but today the were about 15 to 20 cars in the lot, and there were also plenty of people on bikes on the trail, coming down from the north end of the trail.

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I guess I jynxed myself, because shorlty after my last post, it seems everyone decided that the Northwest River was the place to be…

A bunch of power boats, anjets skis were cruisong the river…

All in all not a bad trip, 6.2 miles…

I’ll have all the pictures up at KayakVB soon

It was a nice paddel down Smiths Creek, I made it to the Northwest river. A couple of fishermen on the creek, but not much else. Almost no traffic on the river, strange for the first weekend of summer.

A lot more wind on the river then the creek, but not bad…

I think I took way to many pictures of Iris’s again, but they are only here for a ciuple weeks…

I think I may have worked out some of the issuses with the camers, but I won’t know for sure until I upload them…

Trying out something new today, so we’ll see how it works…

I set up remote capabilities to post…
Getting ready to head out from Smiths Creek, in Chesapeake. Looks like a couple of others are already out on the water, not sure if they are kayakers or boaters. Passed by Doizer Bridge, North Landing River, and Pocaty River and those spots were empty, seems like a waste of a good day.

Water levels look good and the wind doesn’t seem to bad…

I’ll post more in a bit when I’m on the river if conditions permit…

Okay, I have been looking at what I have written over in my trip reports over the past few months, and it has been pretty sparce, even though I’ll be the first to admit that my writting style leaves a lot to be desired.

My schedule has been insane since July, working 50+ hours a week at my primary job, and a lot of other things that have not helped my sanity.

BUT I hope that things in future will be better, and that I will have more time to devote to this, and the primary kayakvb.com website.