1985 Barkley Sound

My second trip to Barkley Sound was in my second boat, a 17foot Cadence by Northwest kayaks, a stable high-volume boat with hard chines, I added a Tempress rodholder on the deck and was ready to fish.  THe easy way to get into the Broken Group Island was to take the Lady Rose, a converted mail packet/baby freighter, 105 feet long.  They loaded your boats and gear onto pallets, steamed down the long fjord from Port Alberni and dropped you off on a raft near Dempster Island.









   I'm testing the image insert, so will close this message, and take it up in the AM if the upload of images was OK.  There's a couple fun images from camping on Clark Island,, where I nearly met Davy Jones....to be continued.

Rats---the image insert HTML did not work, must repost.  Z, could you post that link for image insertion again, please???

Kallitype,

How are you trying to insert images?  You can either attach them to the post or load them up to something like an online photo gallery and post a link within your post.

Assuming you have a photo online somewhere you want to copy it's URL and paste it between "image" tags like this...

Code: [Select]

[img]http://youserver.com/image.jpg[/img]
Or within the post editor you can use the image link button..


If you need a place to post an image you can use the NWKA gallery.
http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?action=gallery

Image attachments can be make with the attachment option at the bottom of the post editor.

Let me know if you need more help.

Brian

OK< here's a try for the Lady Rose, the image is on the NWKA gallery site:

I'm not sure which image you're trying to insert.  If you go to your gallery and click on an image you should see a bunch of code options at the bottom. 

One of the options is BBCode and it will look like this...

Code: [Select]

[img]http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/gallery/0/331_01_07_08_11_10_55.jpg[/img]
Just copy that code into a post and you'll see this..


Here's what it looks like in the gallery where you select your code..

Thanks!   HEre's the Lady Rose, there's a nice port-side hatch where the gear that was dropped in on pallets can get off-loaded onto the raft:



and here's the crowd on the boat, watching the kayakers unload and paddle away:


 
the guy in the Raybans is the skipper, if he's had his coffee and things are going well, he'll let you take the wheel---talk about fun!  They stop at various fish camps and outpost cabins and drop off supplies, it's a very interesting (and cheap) ride out to the Broken Group.  One of the stops was at a fish farm to drop off a couple pallets of fish pellets to feed the salmon smolts.



As you can imagine, for kayakers who had rented a boat in POrt Alberni and not practiced getting in from a dock or raft, there was a lot of suspense , cussing and wet humor! 

The Lady  Rose at that time made only 3 trips a week, if you missed the return boat you had to wait another day or 2.  On my second trip, my partner and I were paddling hard to get to the raft, having spent the day in the outer islands. I was trailing a buzz bomb, and hooked a nice King salmon about 1/4 mile from the raft---I was getting pulled around by the fish while the skipper was blasting the boat's horn to make me hurry up----I finally got the fish to the boat, stuck it into the cockpit and made the raft, just in time, to the applause of the crowd on deck, who had watched the fish tow me at about 2 knots---away from the Lady Rose!

On this trip, I got pretty far out into the Sound, and was accompanied only by a high-liner trolling for "Tyee"....The waves in the background are braking on rocks outside Wower island, the outermost in the group---next stop, Yokohama Harbor!



As promised in an earlier post, here's my first fish, caught in a little lake in northern Michigan in about 1953. In the background is cousin Brenda, who caught polio and had to wear a brace on the legs...thank god for Salk vaccine.
The thrill never wanes---and we remember most vividly the ones that get away,.....and they're always the big ones!