Yeah, the NW is a great place for a kayker --- absolutely. Although more
and more people every year are coming here to kayak, especially in mid to
north coast regions, there's usually nobody else around, if you can believe
it. I was out for two weeks last year before I even saw another kayaker.
Commercial, large ship and cruise ship traffic through the inside passage
can be heavy at times --- all the traffic from the lower 48 to Alaska
funnels through the inside passage but they never stop and it's just one
path that they follow.

If you know where to look, (and I don't give precise location info to
strangers) there are numerous abandoned indian villages (their population
crashed to 10% of what it was in the pre-contact times) where you can see
piles of skeletons and bentwood cedar boxes made without nails, although
sadly many of the boxes have been stolen by grave robbers, and there are
shell middens everywhere. The middens are what you get after people eat a
bucket of mussels or oysters and throw the shells aside, and after a few
thousand years of this, the pile of shells is waist high and a kilometer
long.

You run into generous fisherman who give you stuff all the time. In fact,
whenever I paddle by a troller I bum fish or some prawns from them or trade
for a beer or something. Like these:
http://ripplewake.ca/tr/ba/img/2765.jpg --- don't they look tasty, eh?

If you don't want to fish, are too lazy to dig geoducks but still want some
seafood, you can simply go to the rocks at low tide and bang off some
mussels as long as you make sure PSP is not a problem. With no people
around, sewage contamination is never a problem. I mix them in with pasta
sometimes like this dish:
http://ripplewake.ca/tr/nootka/img/53_0072.jpg

If you want to see pics of the general area I'm going in a month or so, here
is an excellent online photo album:

http://ripplewake.ca/tr/ba/index.htm