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So here's us, on the raggedy edge.
Saxophones started blowing me down / I was buried in sound / Taxicabs were driving me around — Wilco, Handshake Drugs |
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On our latest Long Beach weekend I kayaked around Clayoquot
sound. I paddled solo this time, in a Seaward
Quest; both very nice boats, although mine was a little tippy with
a very narrow 22.5 inch beam (width).
Looking down from my perch, this is what I saw. Two enormous pods of fiberglass, extending beneath.
The Necky is on the left, the Seaward on the right.
We paddled from Tofino through the harbour into the Lemmen Inlet. The inlet offered us a relatively safe area to explore with very few currents.
Our initial destination turned out to be only a short hop, so we moved on to a spot on the map named Adventure Cove. How could we not?
When we got there, there were relatively few monsters to be found, but
there were two homes of a sort. Clayoquot sound is full of shelters -
temporary and otherwise - that people have erected. One of these looked
quite occupied, with a boat (the BC Eagle II) and dock.
This statue, which I believe is not finished, was sitting on the dock.
With 9.5 feet of kayak stretched out in front of me, this was as close
as I could get.
Just offshore, this stove awaited. Alas, we had neither food nor electricity to use it. (There were, however, salamanders that might have sufficed.)
Posted by skooter at 7:50 PM
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