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Through some crafty negotiation, Linda and Wayne purchase the property of their dreams from... host Grant Lawrence's dad. The 5 acre plot is in the Desolation Sound Marine Park. There, they meet an assortment of characters including the Cougar Lady and Russell the (future) Hermit.

Linda and the crew of the Felicius were drifting aimlessly, somewhere off the coast of Vancouver Island, in the storm ravaged seas of November 1974, when Linda thought she heard something coming out of the grey mist.

Amidst the chaos of the constant life-threatening storms of the North Pacific, as their boat falls apart around them and a crew member's behaviour turns dangerous, Linda witnesses one of the greatest sights she has ever seen before or since.

Linda, her boyfriend Wayne, and two strangers find themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a decrepit sailboat with an endless list of potentially life-threatening problems, as they attempt to sail back to Canada against the current and the weather.

Linda Syms and her boyfriend Wayne Lewis agreed to a last minute invitation to join their friend's sailing adventure to Hawaii. It was the fall of 1974, and the couple only had $12 between them and no way to get home.

Linda Syms spent her childhood constantly on the move across the prairies with her large family, until they eventually wound up on the West Coast in the 1960s. In the summer of 1969, a teenaged Linda attended a basement party in North Vancouver that would completely change the course of her life.

In the early 1980s, host Grant Lawrence's family attended a nude potluck in the hippie wilds of Desolation Sound, BC, during which the conservative family refused to grin and bear it. The potluck was co-hosted by a woman and her husband, a modern day homesteading couple living in a cabin just beyond the beach of the potluck. That woman was Linda Syms. This is her story.

Wild Pick: the life and adventures of Linda Syms, oyster farmer of Desolation Sound, is the latest true story podcast series from Grant Lawrence. Get set for another epic wilderness adventure that chronicles Linda's wild life. At a very young age, she fell in love with an older man who completely changed her life. She eventually became a modern day homesteader and oyster farmer, which led her on a 40 year love story, eventually ending in tragedy.

This is a special Canada Day 2019 broadcast of the touring show "Grant Lawrence and Friends: Stories and Songs", recorded live at the Max Cameron Theatre in Powell River, BC. This show features musical performances from three Juno Award-winning Canadian artists: Said the Whale, Jay Malinowski from Bedouin Soundclash, and Kathryn Calder from the New Pornographers. Stories provided by Grant. Enjoy!

In this special addendum chapter to the series, Grant Lawrence details the shocking death of Russell Letawsky.