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 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Nov 06 2007 - 10:53:21 PST
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