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The late Don Brown, a sixty year Seattle resident, ran a camera repair business on Westlake Avenue for thirty years and, for a time, was a professional photographer. It was his wish that his collection of cameras be made available to the MOHI and, if they did not accept them, to sell them to a collector. Most of the cameras date back to the 1940’s and 50’s. One, the Cirkut Camera, is particularly

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Sept 2010: Vancouver Island, off the west coast of British Columbia, Canada, offers some of the best sea kayaking in the world. One kayaking destination, Johnstone Strait, on the northeast shore of the island was our goal in September of 2010. The area is remote, replete with native history and home to one of the largest gathering of Killer Whales on the west coast. Five of us, David, Jeff,

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Looking for adventure? Few accessible routes pack the kind of adventure you can have on a trip down the inside passage from Alaska, through coastal British Columbia to Seattle , on Puget Sound. Weather, currents, bears and open water all are available to test the hardy paddler.Colin McDonald, a freelance writer, made the trip and reported on his success in a recent Seattle P-I story. Click here

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David and Judy Harrison, long time paddlers and veterans of such rivers as the Back and Yukon, recently completed a family trip on the St Croix River in Maine. If you click here you can view a slide show of the trip complete with music.(Be patient. Dave did the program on a Mac, which he swears by, and some PC users will need to download a free version of "Quicktime" to view the show. But it's

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(revised 3/27/08 with a link to Rob and Kay's slide show. See end of blog)The desire to visit the California gray whales, swim with the California sea lions and escape winter weather in the northern U.S. brought ten experienced paddlers from the cold northeast and the wet Pacific Northwest to sunny La Paz on Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. They were drawn by the prospect of what amounted to back to back

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Part II: The Adventure Begins; Ocean Paddling from Bella BellaArriving in Bella Bella in late afternoon we packed gear and paddled north, then west, looking for a camp site for the night. We wanted to get far enough from the village to feel secluded but get set up by dark. We found a quiet cove, on the north side of Campbell Island, sharing it with a southbound kayaker, one of two we would see

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Part One: Getting to Bella Bella Bella Bella; an Italian kayaking destination? No, it’s a village on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada, that is a study in contrasts as a kayak destination. Remote and accessible; challenging with benign options; rugged and beautiful; protected or ocean paddling. The Bella Bella area is worth the trip. Located on Campbell Island, the village of Bella

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Tired of cold weather? Consider a fall or winter paddle in the Sea of Cortez, south of California. Loreto, on the east coast of Baja, is serviced by several experienced kayak tour operators and can be reached from the USA via Delta and Alaska Air flights. It still has a small town, undiscovered feel though development is beginning to change that.Popular trips travel to and from Loreto along the

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“Oh sure,” you say. “I’m just supposed to hop into a kayak and head out into the ocean. I have no idea how to paddle one of those unstable looking things.”Q: How would I begin?A: Take a lesson. There are kayak clubs and lessons available in most major cities. A random Google of cities as distant as New York, Atlanta, Miami, Kansas City, Denver, San Francisco and Seattle revealed places to sign up

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Want to avoid the kayak crowds? Consider the Deer Group, nestled along the south shore of British Columbia’s Barkley Sound. Less popular than the Broken Islands, six miles to the north, the Deer Group can be reached without the use of a ferry or the risk of a long open water paddle. That said, the area is not for beginners; the Sound opens up to the vast Pacific Ocean and weather can turn ugly

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The summer of 2005, Dean Behse, my wife Kathy and I were able to fulfill a long time dream. We joined two naturalist guides and five other guests for a once in a lifetime kayak trip down the remote Thomsen River in the Canadian Arctic. The trip came highly recommended and we were drawn to the area by the sheer remoteness of the place and the promise of an abundant birds and wildlife living in an

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