Coastal Café: Most Recent Articles
Grab a coffee, relax and read an article about past trips and experiences on the BC Coast. To share your story and photos, send an email to articles@bcmarinetrails.org.
Kyuquot Sound Revisited
Good days are to be gathered like sunshine in grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will. Freya…...
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Kayak Fishing, Part 2 – Trolling
trolling lures Last month I wrote about how jigging for fish from a kayak is a good way to supplement your diet with fresh ocean fish. Trolling from a kayak is yet another way to supplement your diet with fresh fish. Rockfish, Kelp Greenling, Lingcod, and Salmon are all attracted…...
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Tips for Touring the Broughtons
The Broughton Archipelago is located between the northeast coast of Vancouver Island and the BC mainland. My husband and I love to go out there and wander around in our kayaks without a set agenda or route. The logistics for great trips are easy and you don’t have to drive…...
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First Nations and the BC Marine Trails
Updated October 22, 2023 The success of our marine trail network development along the coast depends on respectful engagements with First Nations guided by our First Nations liaison, the First Nations Engagement Committee (FNEC), a strong environmental Code of Conduct for visitors, and of course, the actual trail development work
It’s Been a Busy Year-ish
Introduction 2021 was an incredibly busy year for our IT Team. We learned early on that our existing IT infrastructure and services (Server, website, and map host) would need to move from their provider. Rather than invest a significant amount of time and effort re-establishing what we had, we jumped
Alpine Starts at Sea Level
A Burnett Bay Trip Report All winter our eyes were glued to Google Earth and the BC Marine Trails map looking for camping suggestions. We were studying the classic outside route from Prince Rupert, on the north coast of BC, south through the Inside Passage and across Queen Charlotte Strait,…...
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