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    Comox Harbour fatality

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    Metro Vancouver Regional Parks removes kayaks from beach

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    New marina proposal for Jericho beach = bad news

    ...the wharf is on the way out but what the exposed beach looks like is still up in the air, from http://www.jsca.bc.ca/itw/itw.html : Update from the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation Planning Department The Park Board received more than 330 written responses about the new concept...
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    Halkett Bay Marine Park, Gambier Island, Howe Sound

    Too bad the street signs were gone; the fact that they were construction style and only numbers should have suggested to me that they would change (i'm sure they have names for them instead). I should have taken some bearings and distances; do you have co-ordinates of the trail...
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    Halkett Bay Marine Park, Gambier Island, Howe Sound

    Looks reasonable, I suppose there was no action on this route at the time of this plan (1990) as there was an existing one (outside the park). Part of the property changed hands in '08 and there is a new plan (2009) which includes: Recommended Management Actions or Strategies Short Term (1 -...
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    Marine maps?

    Victoria Harbour Traffic Scheme http://www.pointhopemaritime.com/pdf/vhts.pdf
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    A rant given and opinions sought

    Rented power boat runs down sailboat off Jericho beach http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columb ... ouver.html http://www.theprovince.com/news/Editori ... story.html
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    Contacting Coast Guard

    The majority of my radio use (after weather forecasts) is for traffic purposes. My trips from Jericho to Plumper and/or Halkett have me crossing the traffic lanes and ferry routes. I monitor channel 12 (and 16 using dual watch) and if there is a possibility of crossing paths with someone I...
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    VHF Radiotelephone calls

    see http://www.westcoastpaddler.com/communi ... =telephone and from the 2009 Radio Aids: MARINE TELEPHONE SERVICE General This service enables a person aboard a ship to speak directly to any person ashore, or vice versa, as in ordinary long distance telephone calls. The service is an...
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    VHF Usage in Canada?

    lots more info here http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/eng/CCG/MCTS_Radio_Aids#pe
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    Contacting Coast Guard

    Maybe 83A was busy? 04A is usually only used by coast guard vessels and the joint rescue coordination centre, it's an "unlisted" channel in the RADIO AIDS TO MARINE NAVIGATION (Pacific and Western Arctic) which also includes a... SAIL PLAN SERVICE All small craft operators, including those...
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    Contacting Coast Guard

    CCG has left 22A to the Americans and now uses 83A as their primary working channel.
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    Water - how do you carry it?

    MSR makes a cap without the flip up spout, and a shower kit, and a hose with bite valve... http://tinyurl.com/kw2393
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    English Bay Fireworks

    Anchored boats, kayaks, and canoes were asked to stay away from the Innukshuk in order to leave a clear "traffic channel" along the beach into the creek so the coast guard boats can enter and exit the no-go zone quickly.
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    Deathmatch -- Eagle vs Goose

    I've watched some crows harassing a pair of bald eagles, the crows were much more agile and would attack from above and behind. The eagles put an end to it by splitting up then picking off the crows that were concentrating on the other.
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    now thats a LONG paddle!

    reminds me of Andrew Mcauley http://tinyurl.com/n5bxux
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    wake

    The fast cat ferries put a very steep wake in deep water, not sorry to see them parked. My favorite wake story fits the "semi displacement vessels of 50-150 ft length hauling ass"... I was on english bay off spanish banks heading into a 15kn breeze when a couple fast moving 40' motor yachts...
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    English Bay Fireworks

    from their website... http://celebration-of-light.com/event-i ... ng-safety/ or http://tinyurl.com/mtkorv
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    Squamish - Gambier & back again.

    more on the proposed artificial reef in Halkett http://www.artificialreef.bc.ca/ARSBC%2 ... 0Paper.pdf
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    Halkett Bay Marine Park, Gambier Island, Howe Sound

    Hiking at Halkett I was last at Halkett in October of '08 and managed to pick up the trail past the logging but was stumped when it was interrupted again by roads and development. There was a sign posted: "Private Land, Welcome to Gambier Island. This property and the trail system that you are...
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