Sea Kayaking the Salish Sea Marine Trail
...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…
Kayaking Wisdom from the Wild
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…
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…
Martin Ryer photo
The whale told me so
After a relaxed 13 km paddle, the last thing a person wants to find on their camping beach is a group of teenagers with shabby power boats that cost much…
Broken Group Islands
The Broken Group Islands and a broken float plan
As I become more and more experienced with sea kayaking I find the more and more I deviate from the routing as outlined in my float plan. To quote Robert…