Sea Kayaking: On Shore

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Here’s my shortlist of favourite books that I’ve read on our long distance sea kayaking adventures. Some of these books set the tone and others reflected the mood. In my opinion, good books and good food are well worth their weight when travelling—even when I’m hauling them down and up the beach, from camp to boat and then from boat to camp, two times a day.

This list is a work in progress. So please leave a comment if you’ve read something that fits the occasion.

One of the highlights of sea kayaking is having time and space to read. Photo credit: Lothar Schaefer

My shortlist of favourite books that I read while touring by sea kayak.

Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man and life’s great lesson by Mitch Albom
The Golden Spruce: a true story of myth, madness and greed by John Valliant
Travels in Alaska by John Muir
The Island Within by Richard Nelson
Rowing to Latitude: journeys along the arctic’s edge by Jill Fredston.

Kara and I weather the storm with a good book, Goose Group, mid-coast B.C. — Kara and I weather the storm with good books, Goose Group, mid-coast B.C. Photo credit: Lothar Schaefer

Like the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) radio, The Guardian Weekly is staple in our family.

We get our family or friend to send us The Guardian Weekly in a General Delivery package, along with dehydrated food and other goodies,, to communities that we stop at along the way to resupply. — In the olden days, we got our family or friends to send us The Guardian Weekly in a General Delivery package, along with dehydrated food and other goodies, to communities that we stopped at to resupply along the way.

Happy reading. . .