A Holiday Gift Guide for Sea Kayakers
From books that spark wanderlust to trip planning tools, here are four great gift ideas for past, present, and potential sea kayakers. You can go beyond the obvious colourful new…
From books that spark wanderlust to trip planning tools, here are four great gift ideas for past, present, and potential sea kayakers. You can go beyond the obvious colourful new…
Relaxed Paddle up Widgeon Creek in Pitt MeadowsOur favourite day paddle in Metro Vancouver is near Pitt Meadows, from Grant Narrows Park up Widgeon Creek. Jerry, a long-standing BCMT director,…
Helping Your Clothes Tell Better StoriesAs a fanatical devotee of outdoor fashion trends, I recently posed two questions to the online chatbot ChatGPT to see what guidance it could provide…
Chemainus to Galiano Island - Alone and Racing Against The Tide Over the years, I’ve enjoyed a lot of day paddles on Vancouver Island, but my favourite was an outing…
...from Nanaimo to Sidney Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.Matsuo BashoWhat gives value to travel is fear.Albert CamusFour of us in a pair of double…
This article was originally published in 2018, and follows a portion of a route also taken by veteran paddlers Susan Marie Conrad, Jim Chester and Audrey Sutherland. Their wisdom, as…
Part I of this article appeared in the February 2022 issue of the BC Marine Trails newsletter and is available here: https://www.bcmarinetrails.org/part-1-paddling-along-the-bc-marine-trails-sunshine-coast-thormanby-jedediah-islands/ Day 4 Decision day. Julee and I are…
Kayaking Near Vancouver As the days warm up and COVID restrictions begin to loosen around the province, many people are looking for local paddling routes to help reconnect with nature.…
In the poem by Robert Frost, a twittering Ovenbird laments the passing of spring’s cherry blossoms, contemplates the dust and falling leaves of autumn, and chooses not to sing. The…