Doug, My first "real" kayaking trip was out of Port Hardy, and all I can say is that I am impressed that you feel comfortable going out there by yourself. Our first day was hairy by our standards - wife thought we were going to die, and we were in doubles! :-) Have you stopped at Gods Pocket? After 4 or 5 days of being "out", it is a great stop for pie! We stopped and toured the light house you mentioned. Nice folks, even though they seemed really surprised that they had visitors. You were right to be thinking about bears, there are many amongst the islands. Three weeks before our trip, the guides were doing a training/exploratory trip up there, and spotted a cougar eyeing them. That was 2 to 4 miles (I don't remember now) out of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island. Geez, now I want to go back. Thank you so much for posting your trip report!!! Brian H. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Aug 18 2000 - 07:07:22 PDT
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