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Inaccurate (and strangely familiar)

Posted by Ken Campbell December 23, 2011 0 Comment 924 views

I’m trying to get a few things inked on my calendar for the first part of next year and I’ve been looking to find information for a few of them online. One of them is the La Push Surf Pummel, which has been typically held on the last weekend of February, the last few years […]

Jack’s back

Posted by Ken Campbell December 22, 2011 0 Comment 983 views

Some years, the Captain has trouble showing up in time for the beginning of January… not this time. 2012 Tide Almanacs and inserts for the Current Atlas will be available on December 26th. (Yes, I know the pictures feature the 2011 editions… I don’t have any photos of the new ones yet.) Quite simply, these […]

The big chill

Posted by Ken Campbell December 21, 2011 0 Comment 1214 views

And here we are, at the shortest day time again. The winter solstice, where the dark seems darker and the cold seems colder. The days begin to get longer from here on out, but it’s hard to tell for a while… the changes aren’t immediately obvious. We’re going through the firewood at a pretty fair […]

Isla de Dolores

Posted by Ken Campbell December 20, 2011 3 Comments 1178 views

My thoughts these days are still running towards all things islands; I can’t explain why that is, exactly. There is something fascinating about an island, any island, and there are some that capture the imagination on every level. They are apart, remote, isolated and somehow dangerous. Islands keep to themselves. Destruction Island, off the Olympic […]

Reception time; adventure to follow

Posted by Ken Campbell December 18, 2011 0 Comment 983 views

A few evenings ago, I went down to the Foss Seaport for a function involving O.A.R. Northwest. I was able to get a close look at their ocean-going rowboat – the one they’ll be taking on their upcoming trips around Vancouver Island and across the Atlantic, from Africa to South America. It’s stripped down at […]

Amber Steim – a retrospective

Posted by Ken Campbell December 16, 2011 0 Comment 3780 views

It feels like it’s been going on longer than it has, this whole Amber Steim legal thing. A year ago I didn’t know her name – and I was perfectly fine with that – but times change. In case everyone hasn’t been staying up to date on the who and the what of her criminal […]

Obit

Posted by Ken Campbell December 15, 2011 3 Comments 1047 views

Gerald “Doc” Rink passed away today. (That’s him on the left). He was my father-in-law, dead at 80 years of age, after a year of battling pancreatic cancer. I don’t know exactly what he would want said on his behalf; he wasn’t a man given to much conversation, certainly not about himself. He volunteered, a […]

Curse the darkness

Posted by Ken Campbell December 14, 2011 0 Comment 971 views

I just sold one of these today and while I was putting the invoice together, it occurred to me that, here’s a piece of gear I use almost every day, but hardly ever think about. Whether it’s on the paddleboard or in the kayak, when it’s dark and I’m traveling on busy water, this light […]

Simple pleasures

Posted by Ken Campbell December 12, 2011 0 Comment 1053 views

There are few things more enjoyable, more fulfilling, than peeing off the deck in the light of the setting winter sun. I am sure there are those who will argue with me, but they are wrong.

Red moon morning

Posted by Ken Campbell December 11, 2011 0 Comment 1008 views

Totality (according to my watch), was just a minute or two after six in the morning. I’d been watching for a while up till then, looking skyward as I paddled the Foss in the wee hours of the cold pre-dawn, as the moon grew steadily darker. The light in the moon was being shut off. […]