The Seabrook Island Sea Kayakers formed in 2023 to encourage and support sea kayaking on our beautiful barrier island by organizing informal sea kayak trips on the island, introducing basic strategies for safe trip planning, and encouraging a community of people who enjoy the outdoors, exercise, sunshine, and seeing wildlife.
Stretch your mind by planning a trip based on weather, tides, temperature, skills, and interests. Work on your endurance, core strength, and balance while developing proper paddling technique. Build your confidence so you can take friends and family kayaking when they visit and make new friends during shared experiences outdoors.
Trips usually originate at the Crab Dock past the Fire Station (at high tides we use the boat ramp, otherwise we launch from the dock itself) or sometimes we launch from the beach off boardwalk 9.
Some Seabrook boaters build on skills they learn on Seabrook by joining the Lowcountry Paddlers. This is a club which organizes several (all free) kayak trips per week within a one to two hour drive from Charleston.
Every day on the water is different. Just a few weeks ago while paddling with a large family, the Brown Pelicans dove for fish all around us. We have never seen them so close. What amazing skills and adaptations they have! We’ve seen a dozen dolphins strand feed in a line onto a muddy bank in the creek. We’ve seen a family of bald eagles hang out on the beach for half an hour. We’ve seen a dozen bird species in a single hour.
Check out our monthly articles in the Seabrooker. Forrest Gump might have said it best, and I paraphrase: “Life is like a sea kayak trip on Cap’n Sams Creek, you never know what you’re going to see.”
For more information about this group contact Rich Boss by phone at 240-271-4825 or by email at aldrichlboss@gmail.com. Rich organizes most trips, typically communicating plans a week or so in advance via group text.
To learn about all of the special interest groups on Seabrook Island, go to tidelinesblog.com, click on “Do You Know” from the drop-down menu, and select “About Special Interest Groups”.
-Submitted by Rich Boss for Seabrook Island Sea Kayakers
(Image credit: Seabrook Island Sea Kayakers)