Pacific Horizons

Tonight I had the pleasure of viewing Pacific Horizons. WAKE brought Bryan Smith to showcase his film and what a great film. It was standing room only. Lots of action, fun characters, and groovy music. Listening to the audience ooh and ah as we watched the action was pretty cool. Filmed on the waters of the wonderful Northwest it showcased some of the best paddling and paddlers in the world. Although as Bryan pointed out what we consider the Northwest is actually the Southwest for our Canadian neighbors eh. Bryan spoke before and after describing how the filming was done and the characters he met along the way. I got a chuckle out of his description of how things were filmed on the Skoomumchuck. They did much of the filming there from powerboats operated by some of the locals. Evidently the ride in the powerboats was more scary than the time in the kayaks. The powerboat operators were just as excited to “buck the chuck” in their powerboats as the paddlers were in their kayaks.

As I watched the paddlers being tossed in and out of the crazy waves I thought there is no way I will ever do something that crazy. But then I remembered that I thought the same thing about paddling in Deception Pass and now Deception Pass is one of my favorite places to paddle.

Dubside was featured as well. I was impressed with how Dubside could be on the water within 12 minutes of arriving at the put in. That includes all the time it takes to put together his folding kayak. It usually takes me longer than that and I don’t have to put together my kayak.

Bryan is leaving in May to start filming a second film that will be filmed on the East coast, “Eastern Horizons” perhaps.
I left with my own copy of Pacific Horizons and a desire to hit the water ASAP. Unfortunately my work schedule is and has been way to crazy for any free time to paddle. Hopefully soon.

Check out the film if you can. Any paddler will enjoy it and it is so well done that even non-paddlers will enjoy it too. Below is the trailer for the film. Enjoy!