Rereading a very good book:
Jennifer Hahn's
Spirited Waters:
Soloing South Through the Inside Passage
Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers Press, 2001;
first paperback edition, 2009.
Hahn offers an excellent guide through a series of kayak adventures with wonderful attention to the landscape and waterscape, to the creatures (particularly otters) in her narrow path, and to foraging for the Pacific Northwest edibles along the way.