Kayak Newport Harbor to Corona Del Mar and Arch Rock
This web page along with the video will show you this Newport Beach California kayak adventure. I have created this page to go with my video of this kayak trip.
I suggest you also read my page NEWPORT HARBOR / CORONA DEL MAR / CRYSTAL COVE which has a lot more information with maps, tides and weather links for this paddle.
Here is my kayaking video that takes you along on the paddle from Newport Harbor to Corona Del Mar and Arch Rocks. We even paddle through the second Arch Rock. The trip takes place in Newport Beach California in Orange County.
Further down on the page I have a video transcript with links to the specific area of the trip.
In this video, I paddle with my dog Tofu and take you on a kayak adventure from Newport Harbor to Corona Del Mar and Arch Rocks. We paddle through the second arch rock. Along the way we see sea lions, garibaldi fish, and beautiful scenery.
This is an excellent kayak trip or SUP (standup paddle board) trip. There is beautiful scenery along the way.
Some of the video and pictures were taken on different days. Some shots were in late November, some in January, and some in February.
Most of the Video is from February on a super calm day. The video with the waves breaking through the arch was taken on a day with more surf and a lower tide.
Caution: you can only paddle through the second Arch Rock when the surf is small and the tide is medium high to high. Tofu and I paddle through the arch at about the minimum tide were you can go through - this is because there was almost no surf on this day.
This is the transcript of the video - I have placed links to jump to the specified place in the video:
The links are placed by places of special interest. (I now have a few map links and may add more links later)
In the video we are launching from the Balboa Peninsula side of bay by Channel Road and paddling to first Arch Rock and then paddling through the second Arch Rock.
0:00 Arch Rock With Waves Breaking
0:39 Here we go (paddling through arch rock)
0:59 Ha ha
1:03 High tide, we can go right through here
1:10 Down By The Sea (music)
1:15 Down By The Sea (music)
1:23 Come join us on our kayak adventure! NEWPORT HARBOR to CORONA DEL MAR and ARCH ROCK (Arch Rocks) Newport Beach California
1:30 Launching the kayak here.
In the video we are launching from the Balboa Peninsula side of bay by Channel Road (map link) and paddling to first Arch Rock and then paddling through the second Arch Rock.
1:34 Launch here on a beautiful day in Newport Harbor
1:37 Here we go
1:41 Hang on girl, here we go
1:44 Hang on - she doesn't like to get her feet wet
1:47 Kayak launch here
1:51 Here we go
2:07 (Paddling in Newport Harbor on a beautiful morning)
2:45 Beautiful morning out here paddling along here
2:48 Little Corona over there (The small beach area is sometimes called Pirates Cove. The point by the beach is called Rocky Point. The park at the top of the cliffs is called Lookout Point. Pirates Cove is inside Newport Harbor and normally has very small waves and you can land on the beach when it isn't too crowded.)
2:51 (Pirates Cove Beach is) usually very crowded in there summer months - but this morning winter, (it isn't crowded). Beautiful calm day here
2:59 Beautiful day - Newport Harbor back there
3:06 (There is the) break wall
3:15 Paddling out here
3:18 Rocks by Carona Del Mar here
3:23 Tofu's on lookout for me
3:41 Happy new year
3:43 Here we are paddling out near the end of the breakwall
3:53 Going right past the end of the break wall here
3:56 Out into the open ocean which is light smooth and calm today
4:12 You can see a Garibaldi (orange fish) down in the water
4:37 Heading down to Corona Del Mar here
4:40 Just past the break wall
4:45 Head down to Corona Del Mar down there
5:19 Here we are now - by the first Arch Rock
5:51 Paddling up beyond the first ach rock
6:19 Here's the second arch-rock and you can paddle through it sometimes from the back - which we might try to do if the tide is high enough
6:36 See if we can paddle through here
6:58 Ha ha
7:02 High tide, we can go right through here
8:12 Down By The Sea -- God's Water An original song by Dave And The Wolf Rock Band TheWolfRockBand.blogspot.com
8:35 Maps, pictures, and launch information for this and many other paddling adventures is available at KayakDave.blogspot.com
8:49 Tofu is sitting on my lap here now
8:50 We'll see if we can go through this arch again
8:53 Just high enough tide we can squeezed through here
8:57 Going through arch rock here
9:06 Cool!
9:08 Going through this thing - ha
9:13 Tofu is on my lap here. Coming out on the other side here
9:19 Paddling up to it
9:33 Tofu is on my lap
9:36 Hello everybody
9:38 Paddling back into the harbor. Tofu is sitting on my lap here.
9:44 When she gets cold she sits on my lap
10:03 Hey Tofu
10:07 Come here girl
10:09 Weew!
10:11 Tofu likes to ride in the kayak..
10:19 But not as much as she likes to RUN!.
10:28 Born To Run
10:43 Born Ro Run
10:47 Thanks for watching!
My page about NEWPORT HARBOR / CORONA DEL MAR / CRYSTAL COVE has a lot more information about this paddle.
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