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Index
Map
Preface
Prologue
Part One—Lighthouse Keeping
Settling in at Addenbroke Lighthouse
Gardening, Chickens and Can You Really Eat This?
Clams, Tools and Protecting the West Coast’s Inside Passage
Exploring the Wilderness
Visitors and Visiting
Lighthouse Keepers Sometimes Save Lives
Part Two—Rivers Lodge
Working at a Fishing Resort
Wilderness Wedding
Our First Crossing
First Days in Sunshine Bay
The OM
Small Boat, Deep Water
Fishing for Rockfish
Steelhead and Grizzlies
Lady Pamela
Fisheries, Old-Timers and Floats
Bankers Wear Such Nice Shoes
First Days in Sleepy Bay
Pat’s Garden Island
First Renovations
Shaking All Over
The Page Hits the Water
Carburetors and Kenny
Rivers Lodge Is Open
Our First Guests
Must Make More Money
When a Girl Says No
Boom Winch and Other Floats
Brass Balls
Building the A-Frame
A Middle-of-the-Night Freight Boat
Building the Second Guesthouse
The Ugly Carpet and Other Stories
Halloween
Setting the Hook in Twelve Inches of Water
Chickens and Ducks
Sockeye Fishing with a Kidnapper
Footings for the Fisheries House
God’s Pocket
Building the House at Dawsons—Part One
Building the House at Dawsons—Part Two
Another Lost Boat
Starting a Family
You’d Better Have a Good Excuse
High Tides and Pike Poles
Big Plans
Family
What Time Is It?
Building the New Lodge
The Crew Sinks the Freight
Christmas at Rivers Lodge
The Storm
Midnight and Computers
Relative Calm
The Next Big Step and Half of One
Boats Break Down
More Settled
Not So Settled
It’s Not All About the Fish
A Day in the Life of George
What’s Going On?
Organizing the Lodge
Part Three—Dear George
What Just Happened?
Mount Buxton
Are You Smiling?
One Step at a Time
No Break for Me
A Big Break for Me
Edgy Stock Market, Edgy Crew
Living Every Man’s Dream
First Annual Art Workshop Retreat
I Give the Lodge Up to the Universe
Cue the Grizzlies for a Fond Farewell
No More
Epilogue—Il Dolce Far Niente
Acknowledgements
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