100 Lakes on Vancouver Island

May 18th, 2010, there in the forest, a tall trunk of alder with tawny ruffles -- Oyster mushrooms. On Vancouver Island alders often grow ...

I am primarily a fresh water paddler, but I do paddled on the ocean from time to time and have a special affection for estuaries. This talk ...

The world if full of grand vistas. People flock to the Grand Canyon for example, or the Rocky Mountains. People huddle their houses together...

If we abandon that other inadequate phrase discussed in the last post in favour of something better, what better phrase should we choose? I ...

There is a paddling term that stinks. It needs to be changed. But changing the name people use for a thing can be difficult, and sometimes w...

Have you seen Catch Magazine yet? Even if you are not a fly angler, you can not help but stare ga ga at the beautiful photos in this free ...

Well, the ducks and geese are migrating so I decided to migrate my blog from my own domain (stillinthestream.com) onto Blogspot to take adv...

This blog is now located at http://100lakesonvancouverisland.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may ...

I have been exploring Wikimapia. Interested in contributing some of my data, but not sure this is the best way to do so. The base map is qui...

Vancouver Island Backroad Mapbook Fouth Edition - Map 9 A1 Atlas of Canada Link: Kissinger Lake Latitude/Longitude: Degrees, Minutes, Second...

I tried out the Jalbum site for photo presentation. Pretty nice actually.... http://stillinthestream.jalbum.net/Gray%20Lake/slides/Gray-Lake...

Vancouver Island Backroad Mapbook - Map 39 G6 Atlas of Canada Link: Gray Lake Latitude and Longitude: 50° 3' 25" N - 125° 35' 4...

Bear Lake Yesterday I visited the 100th Lake in my exploration of lakes on Vancouver Island. Of those 100 lakes visited I paddled 54, some ...

James and I stand in the airy workshop of Larry Bowers. Around us are the hulls of canoes Larry is building, in various states of completio...