Dreaming in Nuchatlitz is a chronicle of kayaking a little known corner of the West Coast of British Columbia, known as Nuchatlitz. Told from the paddler’s point of view as he take the reader down a slippery slope of what it is to tag along with four good friends on an outer coastal kayaking trip.

Written over the period of two separate excursions to the area at the north tip of Nootka Island the book depicts some of the true ruggedness of the west coast and the humbling affects on a kayaker that only Mother Nature can produce. There are descriptions of some of the antics they get up to along the way. Blended with reminiscences of the author’s coming of age on a small island, and the watchful eyes of the local spirit people the book takes the reader on a journey of discovery. A journey not just of discovery of new paddling territory, but seeing it with new eyes and the discovery of what lies within.

If the idea of silly kayakers drinking, worshipping pagan gods of their own creation, smoking pot and engaging the employ of fictional child labour while fending off sea otters with flashlights is abhorrent to you, or your beliefs I beg that you read no further. However, if you want to come along on the last trip to be taken by four good paddling buddies living the last moments of being Peter Pan before life and work get in the way, joined by an assortment of resident spirits you may come to find some measure of enlightenment by the last paddle stroke.