Re: [Paddlewise] Loss of Kayaking Areas on Vancouver Island. BC, Canada

From: Bradford R. Crain <crainb_at_pdx.edu>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:53:07 -0800
   There is now a ten dollar per person per day camping fee in Barkley
Sound within the park. That would buy a lot of stove fuel and granola
bars somewhere else. There are also man-eating sea lions everywhere.
And the whale-watching boats will swamp you with their wakes, if they
don't run you over first.

Brad Crain

Quoting Dave Kruger <kdruger_at_pacifier.com>:

> Rcgibbert_at_aol.com wrote:
>
>> I have not once paddled Vancouver Island because it takes for frickin
>> ever to get there. Much easier to hop a plane bound for Sitka or
>> Ketchikan, buy some camp fuel, fill up the waterbags and head on out.
>> I'm not trying to dissuade you  from a Barkley or Clayoquot mission, but
>> I'd be in a really isolated camp by the  time you got done beating your
>> car to death on a Tofino bound logging  road.
>
> Just hold that thought ... better yet, spread it.  Don't forget the
> man-eating log trucks and mosquitoes the size of waterbombers!
>
> (PS:  all pavement to Tofino, these day)
>
> -- 
> Dave Kruger
> Astoria, OR
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