Trip Gallery

When the older boat barn was built they were manned with a 6 man rescue crew. Who in the middle of a howling gale, would row out through the breakers and saved many a sailors lives.
Story and photos of Tillamook Bay at Garabaldi kayak trip

I was not paying attention to my surroundings and looked up to see this family of Elk.
Story and photos of kayak trip

This painting is of Doughty Point State Park, a place so rare on this big blue planet. The park can only be accessed from the water and makes for a great remote camping experience. We almost always see Orcas when we paddle here.
Story and photos of trip

I painted this during a week long kayak vacation on Orcas Island with some old friends. We made our base camp at Beach Haven Resort as usual we did a lot of yaking, interacting with wildlife, playing music and eating gourmet chow and drinking Blevins expertly prepared cocktails. Story and photos of trip

One of my favorite stories about George Dyson comes from the book “Inside Passage” by Michael Modzelewski / HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. Gorge tells of having to make camp tided off in the middle of a kelp bed he slid down inside his skinned kayak called a Baidarka. As he lay in the bottom of his kayak watching the stars above dosing of to sleep a sound as load as a freight train just below him startled him from his sleep. It was Humpback Whales just below him singing to the stars. He listened for hours till they finally swam away. My ispiration for: Northwest Seascape Point 5 custom long distance kayak.

The painting inspired from a photograph taken during a five-day yak trip starting on the Willamette River at Lake Oswego and ending 102 miles later near the mouth of the Columbia River at Astoria Oregon. The Painting was created on the 100-year-old sun porch of the child hood cabin belonging to James Beard the fames chef located in the quite seaside village of Gearhart, Oregon.
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I started the trip at Cedar Park’s boat ramp on the Willamette River in West Linn, Oregon. My plan was to paddle by and visit a friend aboard his fishing yawl “Prospector” just bellow Willamette Falls. Click Here: For Full Story & Pics day kayak trip

Windswept winter day spent surfing up the Nehalem River with two old friends Blevin and Miller Time. Click Here: Great YakCAM of storm and surfing the Nehalem River
Painted in July of 2007

Painted during a three-day solo yak trip to Kinchelor Point at the end of Bay Ocean Peninsula in Oregon located at the mouth of the Tillamook Bay where five rivers merge and rush out in to the Pacific Ocean. Click Here: For Full Story & Pics.

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