Tuesday, June 09, 2009

June 9 - a week in the Broughton area (41-46)

I spent 6 days and 5 nights paddling around Johnstone Strait and the Broughton Archipelago with a group of 11 grade 10 students in our experiential programme. We had amazing weather and wonderful paddling conditions



  • June 2 – drove to Telegraph Cove

  • June 3 – paddled telegraph cove to Mound Island

  • June 4 – paddled to Village Island and back to Mound

  • June 5 – paddled to Hanson Island and back to Mound – visited the Earth Embassy

  • June 6 – lazy day – did a short paddle around Berry Island – back to Mound Island

  • June 7 – Paddled from Mound Island to Blinkhorn Penninsula

  • June 8 – Paddled from Blinkhorn to telegraph cove – cleaned and packed gear

June 9 - drove back home.


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close up of Mound Island area


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Total Trip 72 km, 39 NM, YTD 499 km

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What school was this Mike? I think I should go back to school...the best we did was a trip out of Stewart to Hazelton to see totem poles! Lucky kids!!
Kathy from Kelowna

Mike J said...

St Michaels University School - we have a pretty neat experiential programme that a group of grade 10s sign up for.