Kayaking Vancouver Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kayaking Vancouver Island write by Paul Grey. This book was released on 2003. Kayaking Vancouver Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Until now, surprisingly little information has been available to those who want to paddle Vancouver Island's many waterways. Enter Gary Backlund and Paul Grey. Building on the success of their first book, Easykayaker: A Guide to Laid Back Vancouver Island Paddling, the authors have compiled a comprehensive reference book for paddlers of all skill levels. In Kayaking Vancouver Island, the paddling duo guide their readers through trips ranging from a lazy day excursion in Victoria's historic Gorge waterway to an exciting multi-day voyage around Meares Island in Clayoquot Sound. To research the book, the authors traveled from Sooke on the southern tip of the island to Port Hardy in the north, and from Zeballos on the west coast to Gabriola Island off the east coast. Along the way they interviewed local guides, outfitters and historians to get the most accurate information about their destinations. Combining a guidebook format with journal-like entries from their own travels, the authors cover everything from launch sites to lunch sites, which currents to avoid and which tides to ride. The book is also rich in local mythology, folklore and history. Writing with safety and (mostly) easy paddling in mind, Backlund and Grey rate paddling skills required for each area along with trip lengths and distances. They provide an insider's guide to local conditions and brief readers on tides, currents, charts, marine weather and coastal regulations.
The Wild Coast III : a Kayaking, Hiking and Recreation Guide for BC's South Coast and East Vancouver Island
The Wild Coast III : a Kayaking, Hiking and Recreation Guide for BC's South Coast and East Vancouver Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wild Coast III : a Kayaking, Hiking and Recreation Guide for BC's South Coast and East Vancouver Island write by John Kimantas. This book was released on 2007. The Wild Coast III : a Kayaking, Hiking and Recreation Guide for BC's South Coast and East Vancouver Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A well-illustrated guide to BC's South Coast and the east coast of Vancouver Island, including history and geography. 10 distinct areas are identified with attractions, ecology, amenities, place names, landing and camp sites.
Kayaking The Broken Group Islands, The Essential Guidebook
Kayaking The Broken Group Islands, The Essential Guidebook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kayaking The Broken Group Islands, The Essential Guidebook write by Jean-Francois Marleau. This book was released on 2006. Kayaking The Broken Group Islands, The Essential Guidebook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Visions of the Wild
Visions of the Wild - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Visions of the Wild write by Maria Coffey. This book was released on 2001. Visions of the Wild available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In their successful, internationally published book A Boat in Our Baggage, Maria Coffey and Dag Goering described their year-long, worldwide expedition by kayak. Since then, they have continued to travel many parts of the globe, including some of the last truly wild places of the British Columbia coast. Their latest adventure - a 1,000-plus kilometre journey circumnavigating Vancouver Island in its entirety - is detailed and illustrated in Visions of the Wild. Coffey and Goering set off from their home on Protection Island, BC, in July 1999. For three months they confronted some of the most exposed, storm-battered coastlines British Columbia has to offer: infamous places such as Cape Scott, Estevan Point and the imposing Brooks Peninsula, all of which have become the sites of shipwrecks and fatalities. The voyagers experienced deadly currents, whirlpools and enormous waves, were buffeted relentlessly by wind and rain and spent many a wet, miserable camping trip ashore. But they also explored the serene waters of Nootka Sound, the Gulf Islands and the Broken Group Islands, where they saw stands of ancient rainforests interspersed with raw clearcuts, and spectacular vistas of ocean and sky juxtaposed with intricate coves, rocks and reefs. They had encounters with whales, bears, wolves, sea lions and puffins; and as they stopped at different Native villages, fishing ports and old homesteads, they made friends with many of the diverse people who call the island home. Brimming with breathtaking colour photographs and compelling journal entries from all stages of their exciting kayaking journey, Visions of the Wild is at once an inspiring chronicle of the adventure of a lifetime, and a beautiful book of photographs that rejoices in the untamed spirit of Canada's west coast.
Sea Kayak Desolation Sound and the Sunshine Coast
Sea Kayak Desolation Sound and the Sunshine Coast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sea Kayak Desolation Sound and the Sunshine Coast write by Heather Harbord. This book was released on 2005. Sea Kayak Desolation Sound and the Sunshine Coast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paddling guide to Desolation Sound and the Strait of Georgia provides historical travel information on a part of the Inner Passage between Vancouver Island and the BC mainland. Follow the Marine Trail up the east coast of Vancouver Island with perhaps a digression to Hornby or Denman islands. Or tackle the savage inflow-outflow winds of Jervis Inlet to reach the jewel of Princess Louisa Inlet.
