Wow, what a busy spring and summer. I haven't had much time to post stuff on this. I think the last post was in March! Well there have been many adventures since.
After my EPIC snowboard trip with my brother Nick, I went out fishing for geoducks a few more weeks and then headed off to North Cackalacky for a much needed refresher in Wilderness First Responder and then staff training for my summer gig with Broadreach.
Once training completed I was blessed to have such amazing friends from the past put me up and showed me the awesome side of Raleigh and Baltimore. A big thanks to Mark, Marc, Michelle and Darren and Jan. Another thanks to this cool girl I met at Staff Training, Jess, for inviting me to Cape Hatteras for a weekend with some very sick kite surf pros from Jersey and California. It was pretty amazing to meet these peeps and the weekend was all-time. There was a tropical storm heading straight for us and it created some amazing wind for these pros.
Mid June I shipped out to Nassau in the Bahamas for a week waiting for my students to arrive. During this week it was Junkanoo, a couple weeks celebration for Bahamian Independence Day. My students showed up and we headed to San Salvador for a week on Marine Bio and snorkelling around this sick island.
Panama was the next stop on my summer adventure. I had a few days to scout around Panama City and the coastline of the Chiriqui Province. There was this crazy bumpy goat road that wound on for 2 hrs going up and down some pretty gnarly mountains. The road is unpaved and is terrible during the rainy season, which was exactly when I was there. There were few rivers to drive through and some questionable bridges to cross but it was really worth it. I spent the night in Pixvae, a sleeply fishing village in the middle of nowhere with no electricity during most of the day/night. I stayed in a unfinished "hostal" with open windows. I had one of the best sleeps ever! The sound of bugs, birds, monkeys and whatever else may have lurking was surreal. Especially coming from DT Vancouver and all I hear is cops, ambo's, and firetrucks all day and night. The next stop was a boat trip to Isla Simca, a private island owned by Italian billionaire Jean Pigozzi. This is where the Liquid Jungle Lab is located. Also there is a pimp mansion used by celeb's and goes for $28,000 a night or $200, 000. Clearly we stayed in the Lab which was set up for Biologists of all kinds and is affordable.
The trip itinerary was crazy. It went something like this: Dive Isla Simca and Isla Coiba; surf Santa Catalina; hike, zipline, whitewater raft and climb Boquete and cap it off with some sailing in San Blas. And I got paid to do this. Pretty sweet gig if you ask me, just saying.
Anyhoo....
There is much to tell from this trip and I might just write some random adventures should I get the time.
Plus I have an arsenal of content now from this long pause of writing due to snowboard trips, fishing, 'Merica, Bahamas and Panama.
Later Homes
The time came for Nick and I to start our way up Hwy 31 to Meadow Creek, ground zero for the gnarlist snowboard trip to date. We stopped along Kootenay Lake to spend the night in our tent. We lucked out and had no neighbours to bother us plus a crisp, crystal clear night with a full moon to light up our fantastic view of the lake.
Once training completed I was blessed to have such amazing friends from the past put me up and showed me the awesome side of Raleigh and Baltimore. A big thanks to Mark, Marc, Michelle and Darren and Jan. Another thanks to this cool girl I met at Staff Training, Jess, for inviting me to Cape Hatteras for a weekend with some very sick kite surf pros from Jersey and California. It was pretty amazing to meet these peeps and the weekend was all-time. There was a tropical storm heading straight for us and it created some amazing wind for these pros.
Panama was the next stop on my summer adventure. I had a few days to scout around Panama City and the coastline of the Chiriqui Province. There was this crazy bumpy goat road that wound on for 2 hrs going up and down some pretty gnarly mountains. The road is unpaved and is terrible during the rainy season, which was exactly when I was there. There were few rivers to drive through and some questionable bridges to cross but it was really worth it. I spent the night in Pixvae, a sleeply fishing village in the middle of nowhere with no electricity during most of the day/night. I stayed in a unfinished "hostal" with open windows. I had one of the best sleeps ever! The sound of bugs, birds, monkeys and whatever else may have lurking was surreal. Especially coming from DT Vancouver and all I hear is cops, ambo's, and firetrucks all day and night. The next stop was a boat trip to Isla Simca, a private island owned by Italian billionaire Jean Pigozzi. This is where the Liquid Jungle Lab is located. Also there is a pimp mansion used by celeb's and goes for $28,000 a night or $200, 000. Clearly we stayed in the Lab which was set up for Biologists of all kinds and is affordable.
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