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The Heritage Group of book publishers will donate $3 per copy to the Georgia Strait Alliance to further marine conservation, for each<br />
book purchased online through www.bcbooks.com and approximately double for books purchased directly through GSA. These books<br />
are small format paperbacks, ideal for actually taking with you on a trip!<br />
Sea Kayak the Gulf Islands<br />
by Mary Ann Snowden<br />
Rocky Mountain Books, 2004<br />
ISBN 1-894765-51-6<br />
160 pp, maps, b/w photos<br />
$16.95 Cdn<br />
www.bcbooks.com<br />
This updated, comprehensive guide<br />
for experienced and novice kayakers<br />
leads paddlers through some of the best<br />
kayaking waters on the BC coast. Originally<br />
released in 1990 as Island <strong>Paddling</strong>,<br />
Mary Ann Snowden’s book remains the<br />
definitive resource for paddlers exploring<br />
the Canadian Gulf Islands and Southern<br />
Vancouver Island. Twenty-three trips are<br />
outlined within eight areas.<br />
This new edition also covers the recently<br />
formed Gulf Islands National Park Reserve<br />
and includes information on the newest<br />
BC Marine Park: Wakes Cove. Each trip<br />
is headed with important information<br />
on tides, currents, safety considerations,<br />
charts and launchings. Included in each<br />
route description is practical information<br />
on the different land jurisdictions,<br />
campsites, suitable landings and paddling<br />
conditions.<br />
Mary Ann Snowden has spent countless<br />
hours exploring the waters covered in this<br />
book. She worked at Victoria-based Ocean<br />
River Sports for several years selling kayaks<br />
and promoting kayaking with her infectious<br />
enthusiasm for the sport. She’s done radio<br />
and television interviews and continues<br />
to give talks based on kayaking and her<br />
knowledge of the Gulf Islands area.<br />
Special thanks to Mary Ann Snowden, David Pinel<br />
and Rodger Touchie for helping to arrange<br />
the donation to GSA.<br />
Sea Kayak Around<br />
Vancouver Island<br />
by Doug Alderson<br />
Rocky Mountain Books, 2004<br />
ISBN 1-894765-50-8<br />
176 pages, maps, b/w photos<br />
$16.95 Cdn<br />
www.bcbooks.com<br />
Sea Kayak Around Vancouver Island<br />
covers a full circumnavigation of<br />
Vancouver Island. If you are interested<br />
in a grand expedition, a week of summer<br />
touring, or a weekend excursion, this<br />
guidebook will give you the information<br />
you need. Each chapter covers a section of<br />
the island, providing ample information on<br />
points of access, interesting sites, safe routes<br />
to travel, hazards to avoid and comfortable<br />
campsites. While other books cover aspects<br />
of the Vancouver Island coastline, this is the<br />
first to cover the entire coastline and delve<br />
into the unique geographic and historical<br />
character of Vancouver Island.<br />
Doug Alderson is a nationally certified<br />
kayak instructor-trainer and year-round<br />
kayaker on the waters near his home on<br />
the shores of Vancouver Island. With a<br />
lifetime spent exploring the island, he has<br />
an unmatched, intimate knowledge of the<br />
coves, beaches and rugged shoreline of<br />
one of the best places in the world to go<br />
sea kayaking. He is the author of two other<br />
books on sea kayaking: The Savvy Paddler<br />
and Handbook of Safety and Rescue.<br />
Sea Kayak Nootka &<br />
Kyuquot Sounds<br />
by Heather Harbord<br />
Rocky Mountain Books, 2004<br />
ISBN 1-894765-52-4<br />
176 pp, maps, b/w photos<br />
$16.95 Cdn<br />
www.bcbooks.com<br />
N<br />
ootka and Kyuquot Sounds with their<br />
First Nations villages are the next step<br />
for sea kayakers who have enjoyed the Gulf<br />
Islands, the Sunshine Coast, Desolation<br />
Sound and the Broken Islands. The area’s<br />
wetter weather and more rugged coastline<br />
offer greater challenges but also the rewards<br />
of pristine sandy beaches, remote islands,<br />
sea caves, rare sea otters, and historic sites.<br />
It brings those with the necessary skills<br />
close to the dream of remote wilderness<br />
and freedom.<br />
Divided into 49 excursions, this paddling<br />
guide is also an historical travel guide to<br />
this part of the west coast of Vancouver<br />
Island. Nootka is where the British, Spanish,<br />
Americans and others vied for a stake in the<br />
lucrative sea otter trade, and was the home<br />
base of avarice and slaughter as the sea<br />
otter was rendered virtually extinct in these<br />
waters (they have since been successfully<br />
reintroduced).<br />
Heather Harbord is a writer and<br />
photographer living in Powell River who<br />
has paddled and sailed extensively on the<br />
west coast. ❏<br />
Sea Kayak Association of BC<br />
Trips, training, monthly meetings,<br />
newsletters, paddling contacts<br />
www.skabc.org<br />
membership@skabc.org<br />
604-290-9653<br />
Box 751, Stn. A,<br />
Vancouver, BC V6C 2N6<br />
June/July 2004 www.<strong>WaveLength</strong><strong>Magazine</strong>.com<br />
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