The view from the van, where we're camping tonight: Seymour Narrows, "Ripple Rock", BC

The turbulent history of this tranquil spot:

From CBC.ca archives:

B.C.'s deadly Ripple Rock blown up

Broadcast Date: April 5, 1958

In the late 1700s, Captain George Vancouver called the channel at British Columbia's Seymour Narrows, "one of the vilest stretches of water in the world." Its deadliest feature: the twin peaks of Ripple Rock, lurking just below the surface of the swirling water. "Old Rip" had menaced shipping for centuries, sinking or damaging 119 vessels and claiming almost as many lives. But on April 5, 1958, the world's largest non-nuclear peacetime explosion pulled Ripple Rock's teeth forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVQOvKh3IWY