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A Brief history of McNeil Island

Posted by Ken Campbell September 22, 2012 0 Comment 3470 views

McNeil Island first opened as a territorial prison back in 1875. (Washington became a State in 1889.) The Feds took over operation of the prison in 1904. The facility went through several major changes, from State pen to Federal and back again, before finally shutting its doors for good last year. Although the prison itself […]

Friday

Posted by Ken Campbell September 21, 2012 0 Comment 1219 views

A quiet day at the shop. I doesn’t feel like I’ve worked here much over the past few weeks (probably because I haven’t.) And, with September being the shoulder season that it is, traffic is definitely down. I should probably be using the down time in some productive way, but some days just have that […]

Talk talk

Posted by Ken Campbell September 20, 2012 1 Comment 1247 views

I’ve felt better. Whether it’s because I have a 5 year-old in kindergarten or because I’ve gone back to teaching school myself, it’s hard to say. But I am sick – sick like the guy in the Nyquil ads – with the fuzzy head and the sweaty sheets. I’m doing what I can but it […]

This is fun…

Posted by Ken Campbell September 19, 2012 2 Comments 1192 views

The film is in the can… most of it. We’ve got just a few more scenes to shoot and some B-roll to fall back on, but it’s about done. At least, in the sense that it will ever really be “done.” This has been a monumental learning experience for me in so many ways: environmentally […]

Boat building

Posted by Ken Campbell September 18, 2012 2 Comments 1206 views

I’ve always said I would like to build my own kayak, I’ve just never actually done anything about it. Too much for my budget, not enough time, no good work space to build it in: so many different excuses reasons. Well, there’s never going to be enough time – that’s just life. But the other […]

A long time coming

Posted by Ken Campbell September 17, 2012 0 Comment 1201 views

I don’t really want to talk about Amber Steim anymore. Neither does her defense attorney, apparently. An agreement has been reached between the defense and the prosecution that Ms. Steim is on the hook for 72 months for smashing her car into Ellen DeBondt’s truck in March of 2011. She’s pleading guilty to vehicular homicide […]

Bad luck

Posted by Ken Campbell September 16, 2012 0 Comment 1274 views

Getting a loaded kayak in and out through heavy surf is one of the hardest jobs an expedition paddler has. It’s difficult to gain momentum, pushing a weighted boat through breaking waves, each one of them working against you, trying to return the boat to the sand, sometimes quite violently. Getting outside the surf zone, […]

What’s it going to take?

Posted by Ken Campbell September 14, 2012 0 Comment 1197 views

We leave this morning for Kalaloch… Destruction Island tomorrow. At least, that’s the plan. I purposely haven’t checked the marine forecast the past couple of days, mostly because it sounded like it was getting big out there and I’ve found that it always pays to go take a look with an open mind. (We’ll be […]

Loose ends

Posted by Ken Campbell September 13, 2012 0 Comment 1162 views

With the last (short) chapter in the Ikkatsu Expedition about to get underway, I’m going about 10 different directions at once: – I just found out yesterday that I’ll be doing a presentation on the Ikkatsu Project at this year’s Surfrider West Coast Summit in Ventura, CA in a couple of weeks. That’s pretty exciting […]

Get ’em while they’re hot

Posted by Ken Campbell September 11, 2012 0 Comment 1108 views

I’m going down to the Grand Cinema to do a walk-through this morning, just get a look at the theater we’ll be using to debut the Ikkatsu documentary on November 14th. It should be a very good time, and I am looking forward to it (even though there’s still a lot to be done.) I’ve […]