Our club is doing a trip on BC's sunshine coast this Easter. We can't seem to find info on the best launch spot for setting up a base camp at Smuggler's cove. Any advice or suggestions are welcome. J Jim Meldrum Lesser Slave Sea Kayak Club (Alberta, Canada - where our lake has mysteriously turned into a 120 km long ice cube for the last few months) *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
When I did a trip to the Thormanby Islands last summer, we launched from the government dock at Half Moon Bay, and parked our car for free a few hundred feet down the access road to it. Visible in the lower right hand corner here: http://www.bigpacific.com/global/images/maps/Halfmoon%20B-06.jpg Another possibility would be to pay for lauching (and possibly parking) at Secret Cove Marina http://www.secretcovemarina.com/ Happy paddling! Philip -----Original Message----- From: Jim Meldrum <meldrum_at_northernlakescollege.ca> To: PaddleWise_at_paddlewise.net Sent: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:08 am Subject: [Paddlewise] Sunshine coast kayak launching Our club is doing a trip on BC's sunshine coast this Easter. We can't seem to find info on the best launch spot for setting up a base camp at Smuggler's cove. Any advice or suggestions are welcome. J Jim Meldrum Lesser Slave Sea Kayak Club (Alberta, Canada - where our lake has mysteriously turned into a 120 km long ice cube for the last few months) *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Jim Meldrum < meldrum_at_northernlakescollege.ca> wrote: > Our club is doing a trip on BC's sunshine coast this Easter. We can't > seem to find info on the best launch spot for setting up a base camp at > Smuggler's cove. I'm probably the last paddler to be any sort of authority on this but the question intrigued me. The combination of charts and google maps gave me a few possible answers. According to this link (http://www.britishcolumbia.com/parks/?id=478) there is a parking lot near Smuggler Cove Provincial Park and a 1.3 km hike into the marine park itself over which I presume you'd have to haul your kayaks and gear. If you want to paddle over then you might try the marina just NW of the Park at Secret Cove ( http://www.secretcovemarina.com/ ) or contact them and perhaps they'll have a better idea. It looks like the paddle from that marina to Smuggler Cove is an easy one. Another option would be to find a launching spot at Half Moon Bay which would mean paddling through the passage between South Thormanby Island and the little isthmus the park is on. The chart indicates a max current of 3kn on the flood tide through this passage but that might not be corrrect; caveat paddler. I suspect that someone will have a better idea but it was fun checking it out. This looks like a terrific area to paddle, however. > (Alberta, Canada - where our lake has mysteriously turned into a 120 km > long ice cube for the last few months) > Amazingly enough, the lake I live next to (Moses Lake about 150 east of Seattle) had also turned into a large ice cube but then, just as mysteriously, suddenly reconfigured itself into water. The paddling is better but the gathering of cheap ice for cocktails has been completely ruined. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Craig Jungers wrote: <snip> > >> (Alberta, Canada - where our lake has mysteriously turned into a 120 km >> long ice cube for the last few months) >> > > Amazingly enough, the lake I live next to (Moses Lake about 150 east of > Seattle) had also turned into a large ice cube but then, just as > mysteriously, suddenly reconfigured itself into water. The paddling is > better but the gathering of cheap ice for cocktails has been completely > ruined. > > > Craig Jungers > Moses Lake, WA When we were out in Newfoundland last June, chasing icebergs, we had the best of both worlds. Water to paddle on and lots of bits of ice to use in our after-paddle drinks. We even found a brewery in St. Johns that had done a run of beer made with melted iceberg water. (I was the designated driver and didn't get to taste any of it. <sigh>) -- Darryl *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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