RE: [Paddlewise] Subject: Recent Pacific Storms

Well you need to get your Tsunami Ranger hockey gear out because Sunday they
are predicting a 850 mmb low in your area. Should be a dandy wind event.  I
was wondering about Hecate Strait during these events isn't the strait
fairly shallow?  So those huge waves must be breaking?  I have paddled in
the northern part of Vancouver Island and my imagination was captured by the
Haida  Gwaii and some of the other tribes that lived around those waters.
They used to make crossings of Hecate Strait in their war canoes.  They must
have been awesome seaman to cross those treacherous waters, and terrifying
as they raided their neighbors.

I have a tough choice should I do the Columbia Bar on Sunday or pack for my
trip to Baja. Think I will do the latter (smile)... have fun out there!  --
MZ

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Was a real fierce one when the low finally hit here today. The ferry
from Vancouver Island to the Mainland took 8 hrs instead of 1.5, while
the ferry tried to negotiate the wind and waves. The captain finally had
to ballast all the heavier trucks to one side of the Super-ferry, in
order to crawl into Horsehoe Bay. What a day. My buddies were out
surfing. One of them got smacked bad by driftwood. I had to work, though
the Isobar gradient sent most of the sustained stuff to the east side of
Georgia Strait. Anyone from Seattle make it out paddling in the wind, or
ya' all out on the rivers being more normal like Kevin?


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