This is a rich historical document of a wild and beautiful part of BC's west coast and a gripping tale of one family's struggles to navigate a modern-day pioneer existence in a place called Loughborough. The pastels in the book were done 'each of its own necessity' before a text was considered. The tales are of old-timers and their memories plus the Campbells' adventures living on the edge: the very narrow edge between forest and sea. They capture the joys, hazards and complications of the so-called simpler life 'beyond convenience' where one's four-legged neighbours can be very large indeed and not always entirely welcome. Some are as fresh as journal entries -- written the day events took place -- while others were carefully crafted over months, if not years. We predict you'll treasure them, read and reread them and share them with friends. Their boat, Native Girl, didn't last a year, by the way. She went back to her builder to be schooner-rigged. Eventually the children grew up and moved away but Dane and Helen stayed on. Now considered the inlet's 'old-timers', both of them love the place as much as life itself.