KRIS WILHELMSEN
Kris dabbled before he got serious and bought his first boat. In his geological days he traveled to remote, environmentally sensitive wilderness areas in the Pacific Northwest, southeast Alaska, and the Arctic. In his academic days he attended graduate school at the University of Washington and studied archaeology, geology, and evolutionary theory. Over 18 summers he traveled to England, France, and the Pacific Northwest conducting research, teaching archaeological field schools, and supervising archaeological projects. In his internet days he spent three years working for a network routing company in Seattle before immigrating to BC to begin his more serious boating days. For the past three years Kris has been a professional sea kayak guide, instructing kayaking clinics and leading multi-day expeditions in the Gulf Islands, Barkley Sound, and Clayoquot Sound. His interests include prehistoric settlement and subsistence on the northwest coast, the history of infectious diseases, First Nations and European settlement history in coastal BC, the ecology of intertidal marine organisms, and ecological literacy. His partner Kim is a photographer who teaches college (anthropology, archaeology, and history), and his son Julian is an avid longboarder, unicyclist, and media critic.

STEVE SCHELLENBERG
Steve's love of floating craft started at a young age, when he paddled canoes, kayaks and sailboats on the many streams, rivers and lakes of Manitoba. "If it floated, I wanted to try to paddle it!" remembers Steve. Steve's past occupations include Zamboni driving, life-guarding, bee-keeping and working on many varied building projects. He also worked to rehabilitate the endangered "Newfoundland Pine Marten" in Terra Nova National Park. Steve has inherited a passion for travel and wandering that has had him living in and exploring six Canadian provinces, paddling kayaks and dugout canoes in Guatemala and Nicaragua, guiding sea kayak and sailing adventures in Belize and all around Vancouver island, as well as caretaking a grizzly bear lodge up in the Central Coast of British Columbia. In addition to being a certified sea kayak guide Steve is an Instructor with the Recreational Canoeing Association of BC, a certified diver, and a graduate of the Tracking, Nature and Wilderness Survival School in Boulder Creek, CA. His current passion is adventuring with his partner Suzanna on their 30 foot Columbian Sailboat, "Carpe Diem".