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Suggested Camping Destinations

Camping destinations are best decided on before your sea kayak ever touches the water. In our neck of the woods wind, tides and currents can limit your decisions in choosing a destination. Knowing the ability of your group and their paddling expectations for the trip will ensure a realistic idea of where you might want to set up camp. Most paddling we take out like to basecamp so they can paddle the islands and passage in that immediate area. This is logical and cares a high degree of safety to it. Most camping locations have been used by touring companies and have been abandoned or are within the boundaries of a Park Reserve. Smaller locations exist but offer up a challenge at most tide changes. Lets take a look at some of the better known destinations within a few days paddle from Telegraph Cove on the Northeast Coast of Vancouver Island.

                            Blackfish Sound              Johnstone Strait 

 The Village island Group     Broughton Archipelago

Sea Kayak Transport Destinations 2012...

Blackfish Sound  (Compton Island)  

                                       (Great views of Blackfish Sound looking southwest)

Village Group (Mound Island)

                                           (Sheltered camping small shell beach access IR)

Broughton Archipelago (Insect Island)

(Sheltered camping small shell beach access IR)

Broughton Archipelago (Owl Island)

                                                  (Pebble Beach on sheltered passage)

Johnstone Strait (Kikash Creek)

                                                     (Rocky beach beside large creek)

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The destinations noted about are used numerous times each summer and early fall for small and large group camping. Often water taxis use these sites as dropoff destinations for visitor who require their services.  With the heavy use comes the responsibility for all of us to clean and maintain these camping areas for those who come behind us.

The distance from Telegraph Cove Resorts to any of the above mentioned campsite locations is often made shorter or longer by the sea state conditions, water surface as altered by wind, boat traffic, and current. Checking the marine weather before you go on you journey is essential for the success of the trip travel. Specifically, checking the weather just before you put on the water.

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                                                                (Mt. Derby and Robson Bight)