This book is tells the story of a one-thousand-mile solo kayak circumnavigation of Vancouver Island. It’s rich in detail with vivid storytelling that brings together Island history from West Coast Native peoples to Captain Cook, George Vancouver and the towns, outports and parks of today’s Vancouver Island. It’s also replete with fascinating accounts of the flora, fauna, hydrology, and geology of one of the world’s most exotic destinations. It also includes a host of beguiling and often wacky characters that populate Vancouver Island’s most remote lighthouses, shacks, and villages. All this as the author navigates the rocks, islands, tidal currents, tankers, winds and waves in an absorbing and often hilarious adventure.