http://www.elevatedattitude.com/dailylife/inside-passage-kayaking-expedition-encourages-all-to-%e2%80%9cgo-wild%e2%80%9d-for-wild-salmon cultivating free range adventures Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:19:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.elevatedattitude.com/dailylife/inside-passage-kayaking-expedition-encourages-all-to-%e2%80%9cgo-wild%e2%80%9d-for-wild-salmon/comment-page-1#comment-182 Apryle Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:31:13 +0000 http://www.elevatedattitude.com/?p=622#comment-182 Kris, thank you for the tips and for sharing your observations! We'll check out Walker Hook. Might be tough to time our camping so as not to correspond with high tide. Our rough itinerary does not have tombolo marked, but we will put it on our map. (We were planning stops at Prevost and Reed Islands). Thanks again for the heads-up on this unique spot! We should be paddling through Salt Spring Island area May 16th-18th. Maybe we'll see you on the water! Kris, thank you for the tips and for sharing your observations! We’ll check out Walker Hook. Might be tough to time our camping so as not to correspond with high tide. Our rough itinerary does not have tombolo marked, but we will put it on our map. (We were planning stops at Prevost and Reed Islands). Thanks again for the heads-up on this unique spot! We should be paddling through Salt Spring Island area May 16th-18th. Maybe we’ll see you on the water!

]]> http://www.elevatedattitude.com/dailylife/inside-passage-kayaking-expedition-encourages-all-to-%e2%80%9cgo-wild%e2%80%9d-for-wild-salmon/comment-page-1#comment-181 Kris Wilhelmsen Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:19:10 +0000 http://www.elevatedattitude.com/?p=622#comment-181 I've spent many wonderful summers paddling in the Broughton Archipelago and have been saddened to watch the progress of salmon aquaculture in the region. I live on Salt Spring island where we unsuccessfully lobbied against Sablefin Hatcheries five years ago when they built a land-based black cod hatchery. In the process of construction Sablefin disturbed and destroyed humans remains interred in the adjacent tumbolo which was occupied by local First Nations for hundreds if not thousands of years. In addition to being a scared burial place the tumbolo was the fifth largest archaeological site in the Gulf Islands, and is designated a sensitive ecosystem supporting many endangered plant and animal species (see www.savewalkerhook.com). Sablefin now sends black cod smolts to the Broughtons though none have survived as of yet. You should plan to camp on Walker Hook tombolo and your journey north as it is a beautiful, porotected, sand beach. Just don't walk above the high tide line or the Sablefin folks may have you arrested. I’ve spent many wonderful summers paddling in the Broughton Archipelago and have been saddened to watch the progress of salmon aquaculture in the region. I live on Salt Spring island where we unsuccessfully lobbied against Sablefin Hatcheries five years ago when they built a land-based black cod hatchery. In the process of construction Sablefin disturbed and destroyed humans remains interred in the adjacent tumbolo which was occupied by local First Nations for hundreds if not thousands of years. In addition to being a scared burial place the tumbolo was the fifth largest archaeological site in the Gulf Islands, and is designated a sensitive ecosystem supporting many endangered plant and animal species (see http://www.savewalkerhook.com). Sablefin now sends black cod smolts to the Broughtons though none have survived as of yet. You should plan to camp on Walker Hook tombolo and your journey north as it is a beautiful, porotected, sand beach. Just don’t walk above the high tide line or the Sablefin folks may have you arrested.

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