Ha! To late, already has. It's a pleasure hanging out with y'all in The House.
This thread has got me jonesin for some travelling though. I think I need to make some plans to get down to the ocean again with my daughter before she's all grown up.
Thanks for the kudos people. I don't know if I'd have a book worth of stories and I feel like I've forgotten as many adventures as I can recall. Unfortunately I've never been much for recording things or taking any kind of photos. The treehouse pic archives is where I have to turn to to find...
Ha. I don't know about a books worth but I enjoyed working on our,coast. Regs awesome trip pics were drumming up some good memories though. Good times.
One guy only was the Southern Hemisphere goer and no he just saved enough in the winter up here to surf full time down there. Heron was born and raised Tofino, a giant of a man. Huge hands. Real friendly, and real unfriendly and straight up if you were acting a fool or offending him. A cool...
It was a complete shock to me to see one even doing that. I'd seen them around us out in the water and they seem a lot more formidable than when gazing at them from say shore or a boat.
Actually even in a boat they can be pretty freaky, if it's a small boat. I went to Bamfield in one of my...
I surfed in some more remote locations north of Tofino and let me tell yah the getting in and getting out safely seemed like the most dangerous part, even compared to the beds of kelp and the riptides. Worst I got banged up surfing was getting out on a rocky shoreline.
I remember catching a...
Because it is! I learned to surf when I worked down there and full wetsuit was the only way for winter, and that's the best time for surfing on our coast. Still had some eye popping half drowned moments and I was a really strong swimmer(decade plus of lessons). The pics of that hectic looking...
Awesome. I've flown tofino air a ton of times. That pic is their loading dock right at the end of the transcanada eh? Or am I not seeing that right and it's docked in Ucluelet?
Your pics sure make me miss the coast. Winter is a great time to be around there. I worked with many guys from Ucee...
Chestermans has some good wave action down by the fancy hotel who's name currently eludes me. I should recall as it's been rumoured in my family that I was conceived there. I worked out of Tofino for over three years, was even a halfways decent surfer by the end. I never had problems with...
Nice Reg. I worked in a camp just north of there, near Hesquiat. We use to park and water taxi out of the Blue Heron. Don't forget to go to the end of the road there as that's the west coast end of the trans Canada hwy. I've got a hat that was dipped in the water at both ends. Also check out...
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