Columbia Kayak Adventures

Great place to paddle board and kayak. Everything you need is provided. Different classes and super tours outside of area. Small lesson to get you started included.
Tour in the local area of Columbia or near Bateman Island. And for the romantic or night people full moon paddles! Featured in Seattle Times and local tv stations. Oh, paddle boards/​kayaks are taken to water for you and you are handed a bottle of water!

My Inuit brothers were beckoning me. It was hot, and the invention of the Inuit people of the frigid cold north would prove to be what the doctor ordered on this hot hOt HoT HOT day.
It was so hot! I wish I had a walk-​in icebox in my kitchen. What to do, what to do? I wanted to jump in a stream and fly fish, but it was too late. But then, I thought of an item on my To-​Do List: kayaking.
Yes, props has to be given to fellow Unilocalers Soyon K. & Chris F., for putting this business on my radar. I’ve generally stayed away from the river during the summer like the plague — too crowded, noisy (& hella annoying) jet skiers, and much better options a short drive away. But I had to cool off… and get a work out.
I went for two hours for $ 30, which included all the equipment you’d need and a bottle of water. This was all I could go for since they were only open for two hours. I put in at Howard Amon Park. Now, I’ve never kayaked before. I had hopes of going all over the place in two hours: paddle up to the Hanford Reach, kayaking up the Yakima, etc. I obviously don’t know my abilities very well. The person helping me out suggested something a little less ambitious. I ended up paddling upriver to an island off of Leslie Grove Park – she said some people can’t even make it there!
This scared me, so I pointed my kayak upward and toward the island. Oh yeah, it’s a good workout — remember, use your whole body to paddle or your shoulders will explode! I braved a few waves from boats, and a little bit of slimy plant life, but I managed to make it to the island in: 25min! Jeez, so now I had some time to kill. I ended up paddling around the island (tried to feed some snacks to a flock of Canadian geese, but they raised their noses at me). I then beached and had a bite & drink on the island.
I then went down river. Now I would have thought going downriver would have been easier, but it didn’t really seem so. Whenever you paddle it’s a workout – regardless of water flow.
So yeah, such a cool summer activity option. The staff person was super nice, and made everything really easy. I would definitely do it again. This would be a great date activity. Maybe I should take a class though. I don’t know what I’d do if I flipped my kayak over – yeah, wouldn’t want that to happen on a first date!

Oh god how did this get here I am not good with Kayak. Um. yeah. Lets see. We went here for some beginning Kayak lessons. When we were doing the ground based instruction on, you know, the ground I managed to sit down and rest my foot on an ant hill! The feeling of all these ants crawling up my leg was pretty awesome! Got in the water and tried to figure it out. Managed to drift into this tumbleweed soup! Got out of the soup and met up with the rest of the group. One of the instructors came over by me and yelled for me to «stab that fish» with respect to my paddling. It was windy and hard to hear, and I thought she was yelling for me to «stab that b*tch»!! I recall just looking at her for a minute like LOLWUT??? So they taught us all these fundamental maneuvers and paddles and whatnot, and it was both entertaining and informative. At the end we took off on our own, and as soon as I was completely by myself, sure enough, I rolled the kayak and found myself in the Columbia river next to an upside down boat. It took a bit for anyone to realize what happened! And then my friend laughed at me. Oh well, I didn’t get my Unilocal hat wet nor did I lose my Oakleys so all was well in the world.
I don’t think I’m going to be kayaking down some rapids anytime soon, and I guess I got what I deserved with the ants for poor situational awareness. I also think its more useful to actually spill out and recover than just watch the demo! I also think the instructors need a megaphone. All in all I had a lot of fun and would recommend this business to others.