LINKS
THE ESSENTIALS
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For your regular weather information, I’ve found this website to be extremely accurate in their predictions of precipitations and cloud cover. Always nice when they say RAIN to know if it’s for 2 minutes or all day long, and they have a historic tab so you can check the averages from the past years before you plan a one week trip…. can come in handy really! It’s “farmzone”
THE AWESOME:
For fun, this is a website with 3D strokes demo, it shows you and explain in text at the same time, turning, forward, rescues, rolling….maybe I don’t agree with everything but it’s a nice visual work for sure. It’s “kayakpaddling”!
Kayakpaddling.net
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For the fun, this blog looks good, is funny, diversified, lots of awesome pictures and videos, news from all over the place….In their archives there is easily enough info and funny articles to keep you busy for a full winter. I love it, it’s “Journal on open sea and coastal kayak paddling”
onkayaks.squarespace.com
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A local website presenting a lot of Stuff we need to keep an eye on,weather, tides and currents,
surf prediction, plus a number of nice links, articles, and web cams….
It’s bckayaker.com
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If you want to work in the sea kayaking industry, for all your guide certification and courses, and much much more, this company is composed of some of the best paddlers in the world…. well, I think, Go have a look at their resumes on the website, satisfaction guarantee, it’s “SKILS”!
skils.ca
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And then for the weather geeks, an amazing source of data, All the weather station around Vancouver Island at your fingertip… BigWaveDave.ca score again. There is a lot of info and you can spend hours looking around but if you use the link below it takes you to the Island Map Marine Weather station, just hover on top of the arrow of the location you are interested in… et voila!
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And to keep you posted all winter about Sea kayaking news, Industry development, gear, really anything related with water as long as it’s pertinent and/or funny…. paddlinginstructor.com, the blog!
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For your used gear swap and general info, the famous MEC
mec.ca
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Follow Mike Jackson Paddling Adventures here, a full on GPS tracking experience from the water.