On July 22, West Shore driftwood artist Paul Lewis was working on the remote Hesquiat Peninsula, located roughly halfway up the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Accessible only by helicopter, he was part of a small crew building scaffolding to restore the century-old Estevan Point Lighthouse.
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