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starcrafttom

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ok I have a new game I want play . So if you have ever surfed google you know about the tens of thousands of pictures that are everywhere. Great way to see parts of the world you have not and will not have a chance to go to. So while surfing I found a c-dory.

So I will post this picture and you have to figure out where it is.
this is not a picture of a c-dory but a picture with a c-dory in it. mystery_c_dory.jpg

so you get a point for the right answer and anyone who can find another c-dory picture on google earth can post the next picture. and not fair posting a c-dory picture on google earth and then "finding it"
 
no and no and what the hell is swag??

new clue. right country right coast wrong side of the island. and I have never been there. few brats have.
 
I wasn't going to post a guess because I knew it was wrong, but except for the marker pole and whatever is in the foreground, that looks a lot like the view coming into Cornet Bay approaching the marina. Even the rusty old building, although taller, looks like the covered docks. I haven't been there for a while, and at first glance that's where I thought it was. But the big building in what would have been the state park parking lot spoiled the view.
 
Winter Harbor is the place. The waters off that long coast are a second home of mine and I wander it often by mouse, on foot, and by kayak. I will be there again, just 60 miles south of Winter Harbor paddling out to open water next month
 
we have a winner!!!! I have not been there yet but have a few freinds that fish up there.

what is it like kayaking up the coast?? where do you stay? are bears a problem.?

One of the other pictures of the area was of a large couger on the trail from a parking lot at the end of a very long logging road to the beach. Looked to be taken with a game camera>
 
you found that c-d cruising google earth? that's cool.. A person sure hears a lot about Vancouver Island fishing...one of these days I'm going to take a vacation and try it, I allready have the required knuckle buster reels for canadian fishing

I google earthed a place that I worked & lived at during the Iranian hostage crisis a long ago, I'll not go back there, the fishing stunk
26* 20' 14.9N 13* 24' 1.38E a person would be hard pressed to find a c-dory there
 
Kayaking the outer coast and even near the edges is very raw and intimidating but very fun and a true wilderness experience. I have been running mostly paddling trips to various places up there for about 10 years and taking mountain rescue folks up there. They are used to climbing rock/ice/glaciers and more than a bit of excitement and they never believe that they could find that same challenge and feeling of profound insignificance in a sea kayak. Needless to say there have been some converts and some very intimidated tough guys over the years.

We normally camp on small islands/islets and bears are generally non-existent. Wolves are more common and I have definitely awoke to wolf tracks around the tent. My paddle season is late Sept -April and those winter trips can be the most fun with angry weather and complete solitude.

Believe it or not, I can comfortably endure harsher waters in a kayak, than in our 25 cruiser but a well designed kayak is more capable than it appears. That would sum up the most recent trip to Barkley Sound last winter. Gale/storm force for three days with mixed rain and snow. The only boat we saw for days was a coast guard vessel on patrol who likely was surprised to see three kayaks in the area but after seeing how well we were traveling through the swells and rocks, they just waved from a safe distance and moved on. It's all about planning and choosing routes carefully. Oh, and fishing, crabbing, clamming, mussles, and shroom picking is the best you could imagine at some if the remote islands. I caught my largest ever Lingcod off at out island on a stormy afternoon blowing about 20 knots where I was tucked in and I fought the kayak off the rocks and the fish for about 10 minutes before the big female reached the surface and it was all I could do to raise it out of the water and snap a picture. It was about 4ft and too many pounds so I let it go and drifted out to sea in the wind for 10 more minutes trying to catch my breath and have never been so tired from fishing. My buddy kept a smaller Ling for dinner to go with the red rock crab and oysters that night. Tough living.

I plan to do at least couple more long backpacking trips on coastal sections as time allows and that is where the bears really show up.

Fun stuff but no matter how I made it sound above, the trips are really quite relaxed and casual with serious undertones setting the overall mood. Lots of campfire time and fresh fish and cold adult beverages.
 
I have only been in a cheap kayak twice and have not gotten use to it yet. I do think that a trip like that would be great. how good of a paddler do you have to be? I mean could a newbie like me go on a trip like that? or would I be more trouble then I'm worth? What skills do you have to have? what gear do you need other then the basic tent, sleeping bag, single camp stove, water filter???

I have a feeling that I need to spend sometime in the back country again. its been a long time since I have back packed or wheeled off road for a week. We have little time together and tend to spend it on the boat.
 
One of my daughters did the trail from Port Renfrew out to Bamfield a few years ago. Took several weeks. In Sooke they found a guy in the parking lot that would deliver there van out to near Bamfield, so they handed him the keys and some money and trusted that it would be there when they arrived, and it was. To me it sounded really miserable, rained almost every day, they holed up in caves at night and built fires in them to try to dry out, but they really gained from the experience. I also met a couple young girls in Bamfield that had completed the hike. They had leather hiking boots which became too wet, so they did about half the trip in wool socks. I was amazed. The outer coast is magnificent. I used to spend a month there every other year. Fishing and gathering was remarkable. You could walk for miles on some of the beaches and see no one. And then find wolf tracks in your tracks as you return to your boat.
 
Tom,

It takes at least some basic kayaking experience including testing the boat you would take for comfort, storage, and paddling performance. Many of those factors are personal and take a bit of time to streamline. If you take a newbie paddler who has decent balance and endurance and put them is a slower/wider boat with good initial stability, they could do a trip with an experienced group looking after them and steering away from nastiness. They would need to have quality and compact camping gear and the skills to make those daily details effortless and the right paddling gear for safety as well. On our upcoming trip, I have a brother-in-law joining us for the first time. He is a beginner kayaker but is very fit, has good balance, is test paddling a boat with me this weekend, and is a lifelong hunter/fisher person with lots of basic camping experience. He will be borrowing much of the gear he needs but I am taking him on as a "project" to give him a shot at trying out this type of trip which he has thought about for years. I think he will love it and be hooked and he would not be the first. Three years ago, a friend was in this starting position and it only took about three trips for him to go from puckered in full retreat mode to being fully invested in the gear and buy his own boat to enjoy the experience even more. Now he is the one hammering me for the next trip and yearning for fresh seabass and oysters. He did have 30 years of wilderness experience including all levels of skiing, climbing, backpacking, and 20 years of professional mountain rescue skills. Basically, he could take care of himself and was skilled enough to be an asset even if he was still in the learning stages of kayaking.
 
Ken,

The only thing I found at those coordinates was an irrigated 'farm' in the SW of Libya....I don't think the Wallas would have been much good there.

CT
 
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