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Web update

Posted by Ken Campbell March 30, 2012 0 Comment 1196 views

The new Azimuth Expeditions site is up. As with any web site, it is a work in progress but I’m happy with the progress that’s been made so far. As a business venture, Azimuth has gone through some changes over the past ten years, with each new incarnation bringing a change in emphasis and slight […]

Chuckanut daydreams

Posted by Ken Campbell March 29, 2012 1 Comment 1169 views

It’s like Sucia Island, but closer. The shoreline is like sculpture, sweeps of sandstone carved into swirls and accents by the years of water and wind. I haven’t been there for a while… I’d like to go back soon. A day of bumping along the exquisite shore, followed by a few rounds in the Boundary […]

The Cape

Posted by Ken Campbell March 28, 2012 1 Comment 1243 views

Cape Flattery, as I have told many of my students through the years, is a great place to kayak. It is not, however, a great place to learn to kayak. That’s not to say there isn’t plenty to learn from paddling the waters at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca; there is. […]

Autopilot

Posted by Ken Campbell March 27, 2012 0 Comment 1348 views

Some of the largest single pieces of floating debris from last year’s Japanese tsunami will be the boats. Fishing boats, most of them, and although some of them will not have survived intact, others will. The first such drifting relic has almost completed its trans-Pacific voyage, and is slowly being driven eastward by the wind […]

Hand candy

Posted by Ken Campbell March 25, 2012 0 Comment 1146 views

Working in paddle sports retail, I’ve seen it happen more than once. A person will spend extra money – sometimes a wad of extra money – to get a kayak that’s a few pounds lighter. It makes sense, sort of. A lighter boat is easier to huck on and off the car, easier to carry […]

Unplugged

Posted by Ken Campbell March 23, 2012 2 Comments 1119 views

I once wrote an entry about a prominent sea kayak expeditionatrix in which I broached the subject of being out there, really out there, and yet still being electronically linked to the world back home. With satphones, remote internet connections, cellular links of one sort or another… are these modern conveniences worth the price? Can […]

A Catalog of woes

Posted by Ken Campbell March 22, 2012 0 Comment 1211 views

Plantar fasciitis. Know what that is? I do. I have it and I can assure you that it doesn’t feel good. I could wax on and on about the what and the wherefore, or you can just look it up on the Wiki (here)… but the salient point is that it hurts. Some days more […]

Take one

Posted by Ken Campbell March 21, 2012 2 Comments 1116 views

When I have gone on long trips or expeditions in the past, I’ve always taken photos. They weren’t always great photos, but every now and then there would be a nice one. I always carried my camera with me in the event that something picture-worthy might show itself. It was like a long game of […]

Getting the van back

Posted by Ken Campbell March 20, 2012 0 Comment 1077 views

I think the only one who’s more excited than me is the boy. Today is the day we get the Westy back, and I will never have to sleep in a Subaru again. I hope. Seriously. The van blew up outside of Yreka back in August, on my birthday, and it’s been a long, cold […]

Vashon Island on the right

Posted by Ken Campbell March 19, 2012 3 Comments 1299 views

I wanted to believe. I really did. I wanted to believe that our tents were above the level that the high tide would reach sometime in the middle of the night. Looking at the wrack lines from the previous high water marks, it seemed possible that the coming high tide wouldn’t get all the way […]