We have been getting lots of questions via direct message and from people on the street during layovers about the average day on an ocean rowboat. I thought I’d take a moment to paint that picture, and see if we have any aspiring adventurers out there. Sleep/Wake Cycle: Traditional cycles are row 2 hours, rest […]
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The Hot Spring, BC village has a very nice new school, called the Hesquiaht First Nation Place of Learning. According to Carly the teacher it would really be nice with forty kids, but for now it has ten; and, by the looks of it ten very well looked-after kids. Upon arriving in the Hesquiaht village we […]
Hot Springs cove, located in Maquinna Provincial Park, is small and narrow. Halfway up is a public dock that leads to a boardwalk trail two kilometers to the hot springs. On the trail are large twisted cedars and lush vegetation. Yellow lily like flowers called skunk cabbage, a sign of spring, grew abundantly on the […]
We awakened at 6:30am Wednesday morning to a stiffer breeze than usual, and rain that had fallen all night had not just persisted, but became more heavy. After a hardy breakfast of oats, quinoa & spices with Spam, we packed the JRH in anticipation of launch within the hour. We were leaving Hot Springs Cove […]
One of the reporters on the dock in Vancouver, BC ask something akin to what I was most looking forward to on this trip. I told her it would be some point, which I predicted would be after Port Hardy, where the distance from shore, or in this case normal life and civilization would ebb […]