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Wild enough?

Posted by Ken Campbell August 21, 2012 0 Comment 1268 views

There is a move afoot to enshrine 126,554 acres of Olympic land as wilderness, effectively closing them off from further development in the years ahead. Many of the specific areas that make up the total are located along rivers and streams throughout the Olympic Peninsula, and the added protection will help to ensure that the […]

Amber changes her mind

Posted by Ken Campbell August 20, 2012 0 Comment 2163 views

“I didn’t do it!” “I didn’t do it!” “Yeah, I did it.” After a year-and-a-half of legal posturing and delay tactics, mixed with hubris and an utter disdain for any kind of personal responsibility, Amber Steim (that’s her above on the right, in her natural environment), may be willing to plead guilty to taking the […]

That loving feeling

Posted by Ken Campbell August 19, 2012 0 Comment 1178 views

Remember that first time you paddled a kayak, by yourself? When you were captain of your own ship and the possibilities for an ocean voyage seemed limitless? Remember when it first dawned on you that you could go from point A to point B by whatever route you chose, that there were no trails you […]

I must have blinked

Posted by Ken Campbell August 18, 2012 2 Comments 1241 views

When I was young, back in my salad days, we had a gold Dodge Dart 4-door. A “P.O.S.” as the kids might call it these days, but it was the family rig, a slant-six slab of Detroit heavy metal that I thought was pretty cool – of course, I was only 10. We got it […]

Ikkatsu daily report – Mosquito Creek to Ruby Beach

Posted by Ken Campbell August 17, 2012 0 Comment 1327 views

August 9, 2012 We get up by 6:30, and on the water just before 8:00am. Unlike the rest of the days on this leg, the skies are blue and the sun is shining, and there is no sign yet of the 25-knot winds that are supposed to hit later in the day. We poke our […]

Leave a message

Posted by Ken Campbell August 16, 2012 0 Comment 1219 views

The summer’s almost gone. The weather is actually supposed to stay pretty nice through September but the lazy mornings and late nights are fast coming to a close. Mary’s a teacher (I guess I am too, come to think of it), and Micah will be starting Kindergarten pretty soon so, once school gets up and […]

Hot

Posted by Ken Campbell August 15, 2012 0 Comment 1157 views

I know there’s a drought going on in some places. Heat waves, corn drying out and withering in the fields, triple-digit temperatures and plagues of locusts, but these are the kind of things that happen in other parts of the nation, other parts of the world. In the Northwest, if we get three days in […]

Ikkatsu daily report – Mosquito Creek

Posted by Ken Campbell August 15, 2012 0 Comment 1223 views

August 8, 2012 This was an “off” day, more or less. We’d decided that we didn’t need to cover any more coastline – we were just 6 miles or so from our eventual take-out at Ruby Beach – and we had some other things we’d rather be doing. There was another survey to be accomplished […]

Sunny afternoon

Posted by Ken Campbell August 13, 2012 0 Comment 1154 views

“And I love to live so pleasantly, live this life of luxury, Lazing on a sunny afternoon. In the summertime…” Jimmy Buffett It was such a perfect day up here in the Northwest corner yesterday that I had to take the board out on the Narrows, do a lazy paddle through the blue chop down […]

Ikkatsu daily report – Third Beach to Mosquito Creek

Posted by Ken Campbell August 12, 2012 0 Comment 1622 views

August 7, 2012 One good thing about Third Beach is that it’s steep enough that launching doesn’t have to be planned around the tides. Many of the shallow-angle shorelines – like Shi Shi and Hobuck – require some long walks out over the sand at low tide just to get to a point where the […]