The BC coastal Recreation Atlas series

Volume 1: BC's South Coast and East Vancouver Island

Both volumes are made with extra strong stock and laminated to help protect from water damage. Volume 1 covers many of the most travelled areas on the British Columbia coast: the Gulf Islands, Desolation Sound, Jarvis Inlet, Howe Sound, the Discovery Islands, Johnstone Strait and the Broughton Archipelago, to name just a few. The handy 11x14 inch size opens to a large 22x14 overview, giving handy regional perspectives simply not possible with bulky charts. The pages are rich in detailed land and marine information, but omit the depth soundings that clutter hydrological charts. This makes the atlas a handy companion for GPS navigation where the small screens simply do not give adequate overviews.

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Volume 2: West Vancouver Island

Volume 2 is published in the same format as Volume 1, but covers the outer coast of Vancouver Island and its myriad of attractions: Cape Scott, Brooks Peninsula, Quatsino Sound, Kyuquot Sound, Nootka Sound, Clayoquot Sound, Barkley Sound and the Broken Group Islands, and Juan de Fuca Strait to Victoria.

Both atlases were used throughout the trips of both of the two recent record-setting solo circumnavigations of Vancouver Island: the first by Joe O'Blenis is 2007 and again by Sean Morley in 2008.

While not designed to replace hydrographic charts, these atlases fill a valuable niche in providing trip planning overviews and at-a-glance references for the BC coast with information found nowhere else, such as launch sites, campsites and historic, cultural and ecological attractions. There is simply nothing comparable on the market.

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