Tag: Salt Lakes

• 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,…

  Kristin Miller Quilts

  March 19, 2023

  Caution, Moments and Memories

  accidents, boating, drowning, Fears, First Aid, Nervous boater, Prince Rupert Harbour, Salt Lakes

• 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.

  Kristin Miller Quilts

  March 16, 2023

  Places, Salt Lakes

  back to the land, cabins, coastal life, cutting firewood, Davidson lifeboat, Salt Lakes, work parties

• 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

  Kristin Miller Quilts

  March 8, 2023

  Prince Rupert Harbour

  British Columbia, Cow Bay, Crippen Cove, Digby Island, Dodge Cove, Function Junction, North Coast, Prince Rupert, Prince Rupert Harbour, Salt Lakes, Seamus McConville