June 15 - Dickson Lake Photos

 Harvey Pearson led a trip to Dickson Lake near Port Alberni.

 

June 10 Bamfield Harbour

 Photos from the Paddle 

June 3 - Royston Wrecks Report

 

Royston Paddle June 3

 

Linda Watson led 18 paddlers on a tour of the Wrecks of Royston. Before the trip started Linda gave a brief history of the 15 ships which formed a breakwater for the Comox Logging Company’s operations. We then paddled a short distance to view the wrecks up close. 

 

The next part of the trips (3 km) was spent paddling across Comox Harbour

 

May 21 - Sproat Lake Trip Report

 

Sproat Lake – Stirling Arm – Trip Report – May 21

 

Linda Watson and Jim Swanson joined Ron Stephenson for the Stirling Arm paddle. Meeting at the Port Alberni Walmart parking lot, Ron led the drive from there to the launch site on Stirling Arm. We headed west on Highway 4 to the McCoy Lake turnoff then drove for about 20 minutes on a mix of paved and rough pot-holed logging roads which tested the shocks on our cars.

We parked on the side of Stirling Main logging road on the west side of Stirling Arm. The 100-metre-long access trail to the launch site was very rough and our kayak wheels were put to a good test. 

 

We launched from a small beach area at 10:30 under cloudy skies and headed east across Stirling Arm.

 

 It was quite interesting to see the contrast between the totally-wooded wilderness on west side of the Arm and the large homes and cottages on the east side. Many of the homes are quite large with a wide variety of watercraft tied up to large docks.