“We are all going
on an Expedition,” said Christopher Robin, as he got up and brushed
himself.
“Going on an Edpodition?”
said Pooh eagerly. “I
don’t think I’ve ever been on one of those.
“Expedition, silly
old Bear. It’s got
an ‘x’ in it.”
“Expedition means:
A long line of everybody.
“on” A sort of boat I think,” said Pooh.
Yes. And we’re
going to discover…something.”
A.A. Milne
The
adventure begins in mid-January, 2004 when I notice an advertisement in
Canadian
Geographic
Magazine:
an environmental discovery cruise from Alaska to Vancouver, a small
ship carrying 102 passengers, on-board resource people to include local
First Nations people, research scientists, folksinger Ian
Tamblyn and Dr. David Suzuki.
I contact my friend, Carol
to see if she is interested.
We
book our passage and soon, Information, including a two-page recommended
reading list, begins arriving in the mail.
I order books from the library and start reading about West Coast
Natives, their art and culture. I
purchase and pore over handbooks of wildflowers, plants, whales and shore
life of the
