By Ingrid Hart
Adventure Sports Journal, September/October 2009
Rudderless Bliss in Baja - A novice kayak tourer revels in the rhythms of life on the Sea of Cortez
“Quick, put the fish back in the water!” I yell to Bill.
A Botox-lipped fish, called a Burrito Grunt, is flopping around at my feet, covered in sand, fighting for its life.
A few minutes earlier, high in the horizon, I watched a cormorant pluck the unlucky fish from the Sea of Cortez. A large frigate bird with forked tail feathers then gave chase to the cormorant. It was like a Discovery Channel scene come alive.
By Donald Mallon, Canwest News Service, regarding Johnstone Strait BC
"Orcas!" I said. Lexie and Caleb, our Sea Kayak Adventures guides, were asking me and seven others about our overall objective for a six-day kayaking trip. My co-paddlers and I were attending a night-before, planning-and-get-to-know-each-other session at the Haida-Way Inn in Port McNeill on the northeastern tip of Vancouver Island.
