Kings Beach to Speedboat to Crystal Bay

This is another one of Lake Tahoe's best paddles. It's easy to park in the Kings Beach public lot (we got there at 10:15 and there were tons of spaces) and carry your board down to the water. There isn't a grassy place for packing the bag at the end, but its easy to do on the paved walkway.

If you enlarge the beach photo, you can see the rocks at Speedboat beach in the distance ~1-1/2 miles east. The pictures really don't do it justice.

Mike approaching the rocks at Speedboat...

And waiting there for me.

Here's a house on the Crystal Bay side. Lots of rocks!  I think there are some cabins that belong to Cal Neva that would be worth checking out for a vacation.

Coming back around the point from Crystal Bay. There's basically a wall here where the rocks go down hundreds of feet. I sometimes see divers here. Personally I find it very creepy!  You usually get crazy waves going every direction here, but today was pretty calm.

When we got back to Kings Beach I counted 50+ paddlers and kayakers who were tooling around the beach. It was so encouraging to see so many people getting exercise and enjoying the lake in a quiet, peaceful way. Imagine if they were all on jet skiis!

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