Hello, I started receiving this list late last year and have enjoyed it considerably. I have learned a few things and have had a good laugh a few times I started paddling about 15 years ago thanks to my brother-in-law in New Brunswick and really started paddling with a vengeance when I moved from the Prairies to British Columbia about 8 years ago. I live about 2 minutes from a nice day paddle destination and manage to paddle my Current Designs Solstice Gt year round. What I really enjoy though are multi-day trips and have managed to paddle a good deal of the BC coast on trips ranging form 2 to 10 days, sometimes with a small group of freinds and often solo ( foolish enough to paddle alone but smart enough to know when to sit on the beach for days at a time if necessary). This past year I also managed to get in a few canoe trips ( really enjoyed the Bowron Lakes ), and will be looking at adding a canoe to my list of toys this year. In my spare time I have begun to volunteer at the Vancouver Aquarium where I work with school kids learning about marine inverterbrates and marine mammals. This is also a big year for me as I have just quit my job of 12 years and have begun my own kayak tour company, giving me a chance to do a number of things I enjoy. Paddling, being in the wilderness, teaching people new skills and passing along my enthusiasm for wilderness to others. Looking forward to more great posts Andrew Jones _______________________________________________ Kingfisher Wilderness Adventures Ltd. Suite 211 - 1641 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, BC, Canada V7M 2J5 Ph. 604-831-6180 e-mail: kingfshr_at_idmail.com www.kingfisher-adventures.com ________________________________________________ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
I am a canoe nut. I never feel I get out enough and have a hard time permitting this to happen. I have been canoeing since I bought my first |canoe at 17. I now own, two fibre glass canoes, one Current Design (since we live on Van. Isl where they are made) and one S&G Cape Charles I built strictly from the "wooden Boat" articles, and an other Lake type fibre glass kayak, and an pld plastic white water boat My brother found along a river. I recently picked up an old wood canvass 16 foot canoe in need of a little repair and new canvass. My main passion is canoeing, but as I live on the Pacific coast I paddle kayaks. I have never rolled yet. I have paddled a little white water in a canoe. I am a hopless romantic about this whole thing which my poetry should indicate. I drove across Canada two years ago with my 13 year old on a "Canoe" identity trip..I dipped my paddle in everyb body of water I could enroute, and deffinately in every province. My photos did not turn out...I paddled the atlantic and pasemequadi, and lake supperior, and the St. Laurence near Brockville. I visited the Canadian Canoe Museum, where I touched Don Starcks canoe. I drove through Fredrickton but did not think to visit the Chestnut Pub. I drove through Main, and past "old Town"...but did not stop, I paddled in Algonqui park enroute. I completed a Flat water Canoe instructors course with Capilano College but have only taught cub scouts and my own kids. The ocean freeks me out....but I go never the less. I am 42 and am closing in my car port so I can build the "Orange Crate Canoe" Something Sterling North writes about in his book "Rascal". I hope to build more kayaks and canoes maybe a cedar strip?? And paddles. I am still holding out for some big paddle trip such as up the inside passage, or Belize, or some eco-trip???. In the mean time I paddle smaller areas. We recently (summer) did the Secritary Island and camped on Wallace after reading the book. Blackfish sound/robson bight is high on the list of next places right now. I love everything canoeing. books and vids, and mags, and talk...and touch and feel and wood smell...and history, Besides that I am a Environmental Consultants, (hazardous building materials) Self employed working Vancouver Island, my wife Penny is a Paramedic, and my boys 12, and 14 are great, but less interested in paddleing as dad. F. Bosma Consulting Fred Bosma 1165 Briarwood Drive Cobble Hill B.C. V0R 1L0 Phone: 250-743-6061 Fax: 250-743-6051 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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