Posts In The “British Columbia” Category
In the summer of 2002, we traveled to the Hakai Luxvbalis Conservancy Area (formerly designated as the Hakai Recreation Area). Hakai is on BC’s central coast, off Queen Charlotte Sound north of Vancouver Island. It’s roughly 400 nautical miles from Seattle and 200 miles from the Alaska border. Encompassing close to 123,000 hectares, Hakai is…
One morning, with the wind blowing between 30 and 40 knots from the north, we decided to find out just how rough Johnstone Strait was with an opposing max ebb current. We would discover that it was both “not so bad” and “really, really awful”—all depending upon location. We put on our inflatable PFDs, had…