![Looking east through Selwyn Inlet. Queen Charlotte Islands. [20mm, F5.6, 1/80sec, Fuji Velvia]](./jpegs/bigimages/30_1128.L.JPG)
Adventures in the Charlottes is a story about sailing from Seattle,
Washington to the Queen Charlottes Islands in northwestern British Columbia.
If you like a good sea or adventure story, or are planning on boating, sailing
or kayaking around the Pacific Northwest, you will probably enjoy this tale.
I've tried to make Adventures part cruising guide, part adventure story.
The story is filled with useful information on remote parts of the British
Columbia coast—both from our own personal experience and from the history
I have read or heard. The story has over 150 quality pictures. All pictures
are fully captioned and available in small, quick to download sizes, or a
richer larger format. All images in Adventures in the Charlottes have
width and height tags, so the text part of the story will download quickly.
During our month long trip, we saw one bear, dozens of whales and hundreds of
eagles. We met some interesting people and weathered one storm. We soothed
our smelly bodies in two of the nicest natural hot springs on earth and
watched some of the fastest saltwater rapids on the West Coast of North
America. We spent a night in the middle of Queen Charlotte Sound that gave
me nightmares for a week. We visited places like Desolation Sound, Nakwakto
Rapids, Prince Rupert and Gwaii Haanas. We crossed the incredibly shallow
Hecate Strait, rounded Cape Caution and got within a stones throw of
Cape Saint James. All in all, it was quite an adventure.
The story is organized into 14 chapters and is over 55,000 words long. If
you are not a big reader, the pictures speak for themselves. You can either dive
right in to chapter 1 or go to
the table of contents. If you are a cruiser or
adventurer looking for information on a specific place, there is
an alphabetical index of all locations listed in
the story.
I hope you like Adventures in the Charlottes. If you do, please tell
a friend and subscribe to our newsletter. Enjoy!
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Patience |||
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Adventures in the Charlottes was written by Tim Whelan.
All pictures and text ©Tim Whelan 1998-1999.
For useage, please see my
copyright notice.