produced by Rob Howatson
InterSteller
Mission
BOOK REVIEW
The Sands
of Time
GIANTS IN THE MIST
Whale sightings off California
were at record highs last
December, which bodes well
for Tofino's March 2012
whale fest. Events for grey
pride week include whale
watching at Amphitrite Point
Lighthouse, a Ucluelet Chowder
Chowdown, a Barnacles Blues
Concert and Adrienne Mason
reading from her latest tome,
Long Beach Wild (right).
pacificrimwhalefestival.com
AS CETACEAN BUFFS gear up for Tofino's 26th Annual
Pacific Rim Whale Festival March 17 to 25, author and
life-long Vancouver Islander Adrienne Mason is putting
the finishing touches on her latest West Coast reverie:
Long Beach Wild (2012, Greystone Books; $24.95). The book
examines the storied shoreline that 24,000 greys must
swim past each year as they migrate from their Mexican
birthing lagoons to Alaskan feeding grounds – with each
chapter an informative stroll back in time along the 24-km
sandy strip south of Tofino that has been home to Nuuchah-nulth whalers, gold panners, loggers, World War II
airmen, hippies and dreamers of all descriptions. Mason
lives in Tofino, so she knows every rocky headland and
tidal flat in Canada's iconic Pacific Rim National Park.
(Stellers) Dale Sanders/All Canada Photos, (Long Beach) Long Beach Wild/Greystone Books, (Riverport) Riverport Paddling Centre
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