Merlin, thanks for your kind words. If you're interested, I have some more
photo-albums of similar trips. If you liked the Balaklava Island trip, I
recommend the Queen Charlotte Straight trip:

http://picasaweb.google.com/tomfromv...93584591706674

And, I have a bunch more albums of less adventurous, freshwater paddling on
Pitt Lake (world's largest tidal lake), Chilliwack Lake, etc. All of the
albums are linked to from this page:

http://picasaweb.google.com/tomfromvan

Because my kayak is very small, too small actually, my trips have been cut
short due to running out of food, hence my interest in sushi and sashimi ---
if I can supplement my provisions with seafood I should be able to go for
multi-week paddles instead of multi-day trips.

Health Canada has a blanket recommendation to freeze all sushi fish, but I
won't be able to do that --- I think I'll just stick to snapper, inspect the
meat closely, and cook the rest wrapped in kelp buried in sand under a
bonfire.

I love sea urchin roe too --- I'll probably bang some of them off, also.
Mussels are all over the rocks, clams at low tide. You know the aboriginal
culture was highly advanced compared to many others because of the protein
rich environment --- it took maybe an hour to gather all the food you need
for the day and the rest of the time you could do whatever. Unlike say, the
Sahara desert where they had to go from sun up to sun down and still might
not have enough food.