Author Archives: Rita Buchwitz

Trip Report – Desolation Sound – May 15-19, 2015

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Rita Buchwitz

Check out the trip report for Desolation Sound kayak group written by Joan Boxall on her blog: www.joanboxall.com  

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Thormanby Trip Report Link Sept 5-7, 2014

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Rita Buchwitz

Joan Boxall: SKABC member, blogger, poet, and travel writer, had some fun on a (horse)-racy Thormanby Islands trip. Read all about it on her blog, http://www.joanboxall.com/horsing-around-thormanby-island-british-columbia/  

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Deer Group Trip Report – June 22-28, 2014

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Rita Buchwitz

The trip started off very badly for me. I had just bought a new Greenland paddle, a high-tech blade made out of armalide. Armalide is a semi-mythical material, like mithril, supposedly indestructible by anything short of dragon fire. It worked … Continue reading →

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Anvil Island Trip Report – Sunday August 17, 2014

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Rita Buchwitz

Seven people signed up for the trip but three people cancelled two days before the trip. The remaining participants, Maureen Benzon, Heather Kirk and Earl Elliott and myself met at at Porteau Cove provincial park which was surprisingly busy at … Continue reading →

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Trip Report – Broken Islands Group May 25-30, 2014

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Rita Buchwitz

Our six-person group – Graham, Geoff, Ted, Cathy, Joan and John – rendezvoused in the Port Alberni Tim Hortons at 11:30 am on the morning of Sunday, May 25. From here we drove in convoy through light rain in the … Continue reading →

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