Welcome to Kayak Virginia Beach.
This is a running account of my kayak trips in Southeast Virginia, and Northeast North Carolina. I'm attempting to provide a source of flat-water kayaking resources for the area, based on my experiences. 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.
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.
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:
1654 Louis XIV crowned king of France - North Bay, Mill Creek
Alaska Pipeline completed 1977 - Ashville Bridge Creek - Muddy Creek
Brooklyn Bridge Open 1883 - Merchants Millpond
Bonnie and Clyde shot 1934 - Blackwater River
George Washington takes office 1789 - Merchants Millpond
Edward R Murrow Born 1908 - Oakum Creek
Paddlin Miles For Smiles - Dismal Swamp Canal
Pocahontas Marries John Rolfe 1614 - Back Bay Mill Creek
Telephone Patented - Ashville Bridge Creek
Valentines Day - Willoughby Bay
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
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
2008-10-25
Added 3 new launch sites today, General Vaughan Bridge, Murfreesboro Boating Access, and Merchants Mill Pond. head over to Launch Sites and take a look...
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
© 2009 Paul Perusse
For more information about Kayak Virginia Beach or comments contact me at webmaster@kayakvb.com
