Here is the second in a series of videos that will hopefully give you a better idea of what Desolation Sound is really like, since the Sound is the wildly bi-polar central character in my book Adventures in Solitude. The first video put us in the middle of the Sound, bobbing in the ‘chuck, and this one takes us a couple hundred feet into the rainforest that surrounds it. And as densely wooded as it seems, it has been logged twice, a deadly, solitary practice, once in the late 1800s and again in the mid-1950s. That won’t happen again as a huge area of it was declared the largest marine park on the West Coast of Canada in 1973.

I’m happy to announce that you may now pre-order your own personally signed copy of Adventures in Solitude! If you pre-order the book from this site, you will receive your personally signed copy in the mail, plus my Desolation Sound No Shucking Around BBQ’d Oyster Recipe, and the (highly collectible) listening companion lanyard detailing the Adventures in Solitude Playlist. There are three ways to pre-order the book, just scroll to the bottom of this page.

Hey folks! Here’s the first in a series of videos that I made this summer up in Desolation Sound in preparation of this month’s publication of Adventures in Solitude. Hopefully these lil’ shorties will give you a better idea of what Desolation Sound is really like, and what um… I actually really look like up there. D-Sound is a long way from the fancy music galas of Toronto and Vancouver. In fact for this shot I don’t think I had seen a bottle of shampoo or bar of soap in about… oh… a week or so? More to come!

One more thing… have you ever been to Desolation Sound? Where do YOU find your own Adventures in Solitude, to the best of your ability?