The Seas & Us
A Paddler's Adventures & How We Can Stop Harming the Ocean
by Doug Simpson

- Chapters 1 - 26 -

1 : Introduction (1)

I first started paddling kayaks when I was eight years old. My family had rented a small cabin for the summer on an island near Vancouver. Our neighbour, old Mrs. Sweeney, ..........

2 : Oceans (2)

4.5 billion years ago the proto earth was still a seething mass of dust and gas. There probably was a lot of water mixed in because........

3 : Early Encounters (3)

My first inkling that things were not totally fine on the outer coast of south-west B.C. came in February, 1980. A friend and I were paddling our kayaks down Zeballos Inlet, towards.........

4 : Chodotka, Russia (4)

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug 1994 (Entered on Aug 31, 2020)
This trip was planned and organized by Tom, Dick and Louise. Originally there were four involved. They had ordered.........

5 : A Little History (5)

Historians and archaeologists have long thought that the migration of early peoples from Asia to America must have happened when a land bridge connected the two continents.

6 : Comox Harbour Fish Trap (6)

About 100 kilometers north of B.C.’s Gulf Islands there are remains of a large, industrial-scale fish trap complex.

7 : Back to Chodotka Autonomous Okrug (7)

Back to Chukotka Autonomous Okrug,
Journal, July 28, 1994 Puoten, 65.857, -170.53
Great day. We had rounded the peninsula, well past Mys Peek. Had been paddling steady for 8 hours.

8 : The Fishing Business (8)

Of all the effects that our mass consumer society has had on the oceans, over-fishing has inflicted the most damage.
During the early 1980s I used to paddle......