Third Annual Witches Paddle 2022 

Witches Dance member Christine Fiorentino, of Eureka, got ready to perform at the start of the Witches Paddle event.

Witches Dance member Elizabeth Mackay, of Blue Lake, brought her handmade broom created with lavender to the event.

In a new feature this year, four witches showed up at the put-in boat ramp to perform a Witches Dance sendoff for with witch paddlers (Christine Fiorentine (left), Elizabeth Mackay, Amber Jones and Lisa Wilhelmi Perkins).

With a leap in the air after a group photo, all the witches at the boat ramp put-in headed for thair stand-up paddle boards ... except the dancing witches who were just there to dance, not paddle.

A cheerful witch with a butterfly pin in her hat waved to friends along the Eureka Boardwalk along Humboldt Bay.

The dancing witch Lisa Wilhelmi Perkins, who chose to dance and not paddle, photographed Ellen McLaughlin, of McKinleyville, on her red-and-white stand-up paddle board and other witch paddlers along the edge of Humboldt bay with Woodley Island in the background.

Witch paddler Cassandra Culps, of Eureka, rather cheerfully made a dive into the water to rescue her witch hat at the Aquatic Center dock.

The witch paddlers headed past the foot of F Street and the end of the Eureka Boardwalk toward the Adorni Center and Woodley Island.

Event organizer Jody Himango (left) joined a pair of witches who chose to paddle a canoe on this day as they neared the Woodley Island marina.

This paddling witch celebrated as she neared the Woodley Island Marina.

The coven of paddling witches headed past the Adorni Center toward their turn-around point at Halversen Park with the Woodley Island Marina in the background.

Paddling their way against an outgoing tide, the paddling witches reached their turn-around point at the dock next to Halversen Park about an hour after put in at the Eureka Public Marina.

The paddling witches rather reluctantly turned around at Halversen Park and headed west back to their take-out at the Eureka Public Marina, aided by an out-going tide on this beautiful day.