This eclectic mix of researchers, and token skeptic, made for some very unique perspectives. Within a week, I had commitments from a dream team of associates Ron Morehead, Thomas Steenburg, Gunnar Monson, and Darren O’Brien as our official cameraman along with Tom Sewid and myself. I set out calling fellow researchers to inquire if they were interested and, more importantly, could spare the time to dedicate to this adventure. That was the genesis of what would ultimately become “Operation: Sea Monkey.” He asked if I could assemble a research team in just three short weeks. He mentioned that there was more protein, per square foot, at this time, on these beaches than anywhere else in the world. “This is the time that my people collect cockles and clams from the beaches at low tide as do the Sasquatch.” He went on to explained that late September was the prime harvest time for clams and cockles in the Broughtons. Tom suggested that he had connections on Vancouver Island and could arrange for a trawler to take a research team out within just a few weeks. Having lived in area for nearly 40 years, Tom was well aware of the area and its rich history of Sasquatch encounters dating back over a century. Tom is a Canadian First Nations member of the Kwak-Wak’Wakh tribe who’s ancestral homeland just so happens to be the Broughton Archipelago in British Columbia. We were sitting out on our deck, discussing the goals of the conservancy when I mentioned our future plans in British Columbia. On September 3rd, we were visited at our mountain home (the “Chateau de Squatch”) by my friend Tom Sewid and his girlfriend Peggy. Our marine-based expedition was relegated to our mid-term goal with the construction of a world-class Bigfoot Interpretive Center being our ultimate goal.Ĭall it fate, destiny or the provenance of God, the opportunity to conduct a marine expedition materialized sooner than I had expected. Our near-term research would be confined to continued field studies within the Mount Hood National Wilderness and Clackamas River drainage until my retirement. Or would it?Īfter founding the American Primate Conservancy in 2015, we began to map our ambitious agenda for the non-profit research organization. We discovered many.ĭiane and I reluctantly admitted that our dream of cruising the British Columbian wilderness would have to wait until after I retired from the Army in 2019. Perhaps as a prelude to future endeavors, we searched the shoreline for potential avenues of ingress for the Bigfoot to reach the isolated beaches undetected. Surely Sasquatch could live, if not thrive, on the abundant food resources the ocean has to offer.īased on that theory, in August 31st, 2013, Peter Byrne, Shawn Jones, myself and two others boarded a large zodiac inflatable and set out through the Salmon River estuary north of Lincoln City, Oregon, into pounding surf and out into the Pacific Ocean. What better way to access this uninhabited aquatic world than by boat? To my knowledge, nobody has approached Bigfooting from a nautical angle. Then it dawned on me…why not use the Jadoo Shikari to investigate the desolate territory of coastal British Columbia? With its countless inlets and vast archipelagos, one could spend their entire life and not possibly see it all. Surely Bigfoot would thrive in such a riparian paradise. ![]() I have always been enchanted with the incredibly vast wilderness of Canada. We have lived aboard now for the past three years and love it!įrom the very start, I pondered the feasibility of conducting our research into the Bigfoot phenomenon utilizing our yacht from the sea instead of by land. My wife Diane and I discussed it, and before long, we sold our house and bought the “Jadoo Shikari” (Mystery Hunter in Hindu). I had always envied Darren’s life style and made the decision right then and there that, if there was a way, we would buy that boat and join the live-aboard community. Moored in the adjacent slip was a 40’ Tollycraft Tri-Cabin motor yacht. Bucking 50mph winds and high seas, we arrived some three hours later. There he, his wife Lisa and their daughter Arianna lived aboard a 48’ Choy Lee trawler. ![]() ![]() It’s an amazing epiphany when dreams collide with reality.įour years ago I was asked by my life-long friend, Darren O’Brien, to ride along with him on his boat from Port Townsend to his home port, Port Ludlow, Washington. The contents are copyrighted and any use of its contents, without specific authorization from the author, is strictly prohibited by law. The following is an excerpt from an upcoming book to be published, with pictures, by Todd M.
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