"I have the good fortune to be going on a kayak trip off Vancouver
Island..."

What a great place you are in for sea kayaking! That was one of my
sports too when I lived back east - mostly IK. I almost drowned 4
times in the space of 5 years so I moved to the desert. Sporting
feller that I am, tho, I give the sea another crack at me at least
once a year.

I wouldn't be too experimental and adventurous on what I ate on a sea
kayaking expedition, tho. You don't really want to get sick when you
have to paddle home (this from a guy who got food poisoning by eating
a ratty old salami on a camping trip 2 years ago) . You must be
familiar with Euell Gibbons' book, *Stalking the Blue-Eyed Scallop*.
He was writing about your part of the country. He died kind of young,
tho...