MENDOCINO COUNTY, Calif. – A Mountain View man who had gone missing while kayaking on the Mendocino Coast Tuesday has been found dead.

The body of 56-year-old Donnie Kelly Foster was discovered Wednesday morning, according to Lt. Rusty Noe of the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office.

Noe said deputies were dispatched shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday to Brewery Gulch on the report of body found on the beach.

When they arrived, they identified Foster, whose body had appeared to have been washed up on the beach by the tide, Noe said.

Foster had been reported overdue Tuesday evening after last being seen at 3 p.m. in the area of Mendocino Bay in his 7-foot blue whitewater kayak, according to Capt. Kurt Smallcomb.

Smallcomb said the U.S. Coast Guard had begun an ocean search Wednesday using their helicopter and motor life boat in the area where Foster had last been seen

Foster was visiting the Mendocino Coast with his wife for the Thanksgiving holiday, Smallcomb said.

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