Paddling in the South Sound?

Hi all,
I'm looking for people to paddle with in the South Sound.  In all honesty, I'm not terribly interested in fishing.  I've done lots of fishing (not in a kayak) and I'm not into it in a kayak.  I just want to paddle.

Please tell me to FO if this isn't the place to solicit people for a simple paddle.  I can take it. 

I just can't find many places to find other kayakers to hang out with. 

I'm off work for the next week through the 18th, so if anyone is free for a nice day on the water, please let me know. 

Safe travels.
=Rebecca 

Hi Rebecca

I haven't been on here very long, and have only had my kayak a couple months.  I don't think anyone here would ever be rude enough to tell you to FO just because you don't want to fish.  This seems a pretty decent neighborhood.

My boat is in drydock right now while I install some electronics.  If I get done in time I will let you know...I will need to go out on the water and test it.

Mark

Paddling in the Sound definitely requires an understanding of charts. There's some areas where tide rips will easily start sending you backwards (as I experienced on the south end of Anderson Island once).  That said, there are some good areas to paddle. Hopefully someone will pipe-up for you. I've not lived in the So. Sound in well over a decade now, and really only visit AI when I have the kayak

http://www.metakrome.com/ssak/pages/index.html

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southsoundareakayakers/

http://www.lastwilderness.net/azimuth-expeditions/index.php

http://www.alpinex.com/

The 1st and last ones are right in your backyard, Rebecca, and are more oriented towards active, frequent, paddling . Sorry i took so long to get back to you.

Hi Rebecca, I love to paddle and fly fish in my local tidal creeks, lower rivers,  & estuaries. I don't get up to the S Sound much, though.
 However, you'd be hard pressed to find a more wonderful place to paddle than the Elk River estuary here in Grays Harbor. You could spend days back there and not see it all! Gotta plan for the tides, though. Let me know if you'd like to paddle. I'm old (just turned 61), but can paddle all day! I'll have my flyrods along, but I usually keep moving until I find some fish holding, which isn't all that often. (Its my favorite place to paddle, though!)