Tag: Salt Lakes
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Exceedingly Cautious

I was exceedingly cautious lighting the propane stove, convinced it might blow sky-high and take me with it, and I was just as careful with the hatchet and axe, the flaring Aladdin lantern, the jar of mayonnaise cooling in the creek. I pored over first aid manuals, underlining the sections on food poisoning, lock-jaw,…
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Salt Lakes

You needed a boat to reach the raggle-tag community of free spirits living in the cabins and shacks that tilted and swayed on a rocky, windy shore.
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Rupert Harbour and Beyond

The coastal community in the seventies and early eighties was fluid and transient. Prairie kids and city kids and unrepentant hippies fetched up on the docks of Prince Rupert in northern British Columbia looking for the romance of the sea; seeking mystical enlightenment or big bucks in the herring fisheries