tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62604353258136135742024-03-06T10:48:41.807+00:00Around the World in 8000 daysTabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.comBlogger627125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-21711338444875774232017-10-03T16:31:00.001+01:002017-10-03T16:31:27.779+01:00Queen Charlotte, Skidegate and a rather unfortunate incident … <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Queen Charlotte, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Queen
Charlotte is the largest town in Haida Gwaii, but it still feels pretty small.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We were staying close to the harbour, which also had the large and helpful
tourist information office, the Ocean View Restaurant with the great pizza, a
lovely little café called Queen B’s, where we failed to resist the nice looking
– and equally nice tasting – cakes, and a few other little shops and eateries.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Volunteer celebrations, Queen Charlotte, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This is also
where the ‘town square’ is, complete with a small stage. We were quite pleased
to discover that there was due to be an event on; it was a celebration of the
volunteers in the community, and it was to have live music, food stalls, a
cake, and a presentation to a specially honoured volunteer. It sounded
interesting, and we were told everyone was welcome, so we decided to stick
around to check it out.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Queen Charlotte, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Well, a few dozen people turned up. There was a band, and they were OK, at
least until the vocalist let another band member have a go at
singing, when it went a bit south for a few songs. There was a food stall, and
there was a cake. They couldn’t cut the cake though, because that honour was
for the person being presented to, and she hadn’t arrived. I don’t know whether
or not she knew that she was supposed to be receiving something, so had to turn
up, but an hour and fifty minutes into the two-hour event and she still hadn’t arrived. Oops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Further down
the road, was the supermarket, and a few more places to eat, including a nice
little shop/café/ice cream place called Junebug. That is pretty much it, but it
covers all the necessaries, and we were pleasantly surprised at the quality in
the places we tried.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">There is no
public transport on the island, and as you’ll know from my post about our
arrival here, taxis are few and far between, so hitchhiking is commonplace.
That would probably have been how we would have got between Queen Charlotte and
Skidegate had we not managed to hire a car.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We had saved
Skidegate and the nearby museum for our last day, as before we knew we were
getting the car, it seemed easier to just make one trip in this direction, and
then we would be in the right area to get the ferry from Skidegate in the
evening. Having the car made things much easier though, as it’s a reasonable
distance between Skidegate town, the museum and the ferry terminal, and as it
turned out, there wasn’t a suitable café in Skidegate, so we still ended up
driving back to Queen B’s in Queen Charlotte.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Model of old Skidegate, Haida Gwaii Museum, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Skidegate is
the second of the two sites that the Haida people moved to when they abandoned
their villages. The Haida Museum has a great little model of what the village
would have looked like then, and while it is certainly very different now, you can
still see the basic layout of the properties around the bay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">There isn’t
much to do in Skidegate itself, but then that wasn’t really a surprise by now,
based on everywhere else we’d been. We checked out a couple of touristy shops,
looked at a couple of totem poles, and that was about it. Our favourite thing
in Skidegate was probably the old rusting fire engine that was sat on the grass,
gradually disintegrating, with a tree growing out of the top.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old fire engine, Skidegate, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We had also
been told, by someone we’d met at the Airbnb the previous evening, to sneak a
peek into the shed next to the fire engine. It was locked, but there was a
small opening at the back that we could peer through. Inside, were the
blackened remains of a totem pole, which had presumably been rescued from a
fire at some point, but were now lying forgotten in this shed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The main
thing to do here though, is to visit the Haida Gwaii Museum and Haida Heritage
Centre. We did, but I’ll talk about those in the next post.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burnt totem pole, Skidegate, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">For now, I’ll
leave you with the rather unfortunate incident that happened to Nic, as we were
about to leave Queen Charlotte. We were walking back to the car, and passed
under a lamppost. Just as we did so, Nic got splattered with bird poo. But this
wasn’t just any old bird poo, this was courtesy of a bald eagle that was
sitting on the lamppost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Now bearing
in mind that a bald eagle is generally between 70cm and a metre tall, with a
wingspan of around two meters, you can imagine that they produce quite a lot of
poo. It wasn’t pretty. Thankfully, because we had the bags in the car, Nic was
able to grab a change of clothes and go and use the tourist information office
loos to clean up and change. The eagle just sat there.</span><br />
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Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Queen Charlotte, BC, Canada53.2549952 -132.086867653.2169967 -132.1675486 53.292993700000004 -132.0061866tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-59243987957743574182017-09-30T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-30T12:00:21.197+01:00Masset and Old Masset <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">With our two
boat trips done, we still had a few days free in Haida Gwaii, and having seen
just how small Queen Charlotte is, we decided to hire a car for couple of days
to get a little further around the island. We were fortunate to get a car at
short notice like this – indeed they originally said they didn’t have one, so I
assume we got lucky due to a cancellation. If you are coming here, do book your
hire car in advance. We used Gwaii Taxi and Tours, and they were very
convenient, as they brought the car to us at our Airbnb and allowed us to drop
it at the ferry in Skidegate when we left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We decided
spend our free full day going out to Masset and Old Masset, which were a good
few hours drive away. It would have been nice to stop at Tlell on the way,
especially if we had been allowed to be eating bad things, as the café there is
apparently very good. Thankfully, being a bit short on time helped us to exercise
enough willpower to avoid it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">We arrived
in Masset in time for lunch, and stopped at the Mile Zero Pub and Grill. The
restaurant bit looked pretty dull, so we sat in the pub area, which has the
same menu. The choices are pretty standard, but they are very friendly there
and the quality of food was very good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Happily fed,
we set off to have a wander around Masset. That took about ten minutes. There
really isn’t anything here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">So we got
back in the car, and continued on to Old Masset. Some of you may recall that in
a previous post, I mentioned that when the Haida people had to abandon their
villages, this was one of the two places that they settled. As such, Old Masset
is still largely inhabited by the Haida people, and so there are a number of totem
poles dotted around the village here.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Totem pole on the school in Old Masset</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We took a
look at them as we drove, and took a few photos, but we didn’t want to loiter
too much, as most are in people’s gardens, so it would have felt a bit
intrusive. It was nice to see the poles that are newer, more colourful, and
still in use, but I am not sure that we really would have felt it was worth the
cost and time to drive up here for them alone. We may have felt differently had
we not already been to S’Gang Gwaay though.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gin Kuyaas Haida Art Studio and Gifts, Old Masset</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">What we did
think it was well worth coming here for, were the Haida art studios and
galleries. Some of them were a little overly touristy, some were a bit
overpriced, and some just had incredibly expensive pieces, but we found two
places in particular that we really liked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The first
was the art studio of Haida artist Alice White, which is located in her
B&B. We enjoyed a good look around, and found many of the works
interesting, but settled on a small eagle and raven pattern that was painted on
paper made from red cedar bark. This appealed to us, both as a nice image, and
the fact that with the traditional material and the crest of the two Haida
clans, it felt like a good representation of our visit.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Canoe store and totem poles in Old Masset</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The other
was Gin Kuyaas Haida Art Studio and Gifts, which is run by a Haida couple from
a traditional Long House, across the way from the family canoe
store and totem poles. This is a nice, simple store, which had a number of very
nice pieces, that generally seemed better quality and better value than we had
seen elsewhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We had taken
quite a liking to some of the argillite carvings, so had been looking for a
piece that we might buy. Argillite is a black stone, and though similar stone
can be found elsewhere, this specific composite is only found in Haida Gwaii,
and comes from the Slatechuck mine, owned by the Haida, and fiercely protected
by them. Only Haida people are permitted to carve it. They used to use it as
something to sell to Europeans, often with jokes at their expense, but these
days the images have been refined and more in keeping with Haida styles in
other materials.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Totem pole in Old Masset</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We had
earlier rejected a piece in another shop, because though exactly the type of
thing we wanted, it was very expensive and in my opinion, not that well made.
In the shop here, we found a lovely little box, with a bear image, that we
loved, and that was a far more reasonable price. It was only after we bought it
that we realised that the carver, Derek White, is a relation of April, the artist
whose painting we had bought, with both being direct descendants of a famous
Haida Chief and artist called Charles Edenshaw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We had to
wait to pick up the painting, so we drove back to Old Masset and had a drink at
the rather nice Ground Gallery and Coffee House, where we nobly resisted cake.
After collecting the picture, it was time to drive back to Queen Charlotte.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We decided
to make a small detour to drive through tiny Port Clements on the way, which
was interesting to see, but as we knew that our Airbnb host was kindly making
us dinner that evening, we carried on home.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old Masset</td></tr>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Old Massett, BC V0T, Canada54.040417 -132.18790528.518382499999998 -173.496499 79.5624515 -90.879311tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-30495486304387463522017-09-28T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-28T12:00:22.055+01:00The UNESCO World Heritage Site of S'Gang Gwaay<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">S'Gang Gwaay, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Our second full
day in Haida Gwaii meant our second boat trip with Haida Style, this time with
a very early start, as we were heading right down to the southern end of the archipelago.
Our destination was Anthony Island, and the Haida village of S’Gang Gwaay, or Ninstints,
which is the name that white visitors gave it, based on the name of the village
Chief.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rainforest, S'Gang Gwaay, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Today, we were
on the covered boat with James, and as it was a bit bumpy, and the journey was
around 4.5 hours each way, we were quite glad of that. A few of our fellow
shipmates felt a bit queasy in the rough patches as it was. Nic was OK though,
as he had taken a tablet just in case, and I was don’t generally have any
problem with seasickness anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It was a
long journey down to S’Gang Gwaay, and we were all pretty glad when we finally arrived,
even if we were a little disappointed that in order to avoid missing our slot
with the Watchmen, we didn’t have time to stop and watch the couple of
humpbacks that we had seen in the bay.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Watchman Kelsey, S'Gang Gwaay, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The boats
and away from the village site, in order to avoid spoiling the experience in the
village, so to get there, we took a walk through the mysterious looking
rainforest, with its dark moss and ancient trees. The main trees here are cedar
spruce and hemlock, which we learned to tell apart by the patterns on their
bark.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ7Md_7wMl5Oz_2b9gpLYmX0ARRZn16BJrz6LgN7HmmQ6GGQbAHECWhkSM8iKMXNQrp0I-FYgOQx1yMhpVsuTxlX-Rh0A0igSdrwtuMYCWPs1Xnjx9WvkB4OWvXqCuOySCSFNB4e9eTAE/s1600/P8065404.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>We were
shown around the village by Patrick from Haida Style, and Kelsey, one of the Watchmen.
They gave us a great tour around, with lots of interesting information and some
lovely stories about the carvings on the totem poles.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Totems, S'Gang Gwaay, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Like
Skedans, there were some remains of Haida Long Houses, and some collapsed and decaying
poles, but unlike that village, S’Gang Gwaay also has quite a number of memorial
poles that are still standing, and while the colours are long gone, the
intricate carvings are still very visible. It isn’t hard to see why this was
granted UNESCO World Heritage Site status.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We loved
seeing the poles here. They may not be as well preserved as those that we might
see in a museum or gallery, but there is something far better about seeing them
still standing in the place that they were carved and raised, and where they
served their proper purpose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Standing
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">people that once inhabited the village, as well as a stark reminder that
those same people were decimated by disease brought by white colonists. Indeed,
one of the poles, which stands a little away from the rest, at the edge of the
village, is believed to be the mortuary pole of the Chief of another village,
where the smallpox wiped out almost everyone, and the few that remained were
allowed to join the village here.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Totems, S'Gang Gwaay, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Now I’m
definitely not one of those people who goes to places and claims to be able to ‘feel
the spirituality’. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t recognise when a place is
meaningful, and S’Gang Gwaay certainly is that. It helps that Kelsey and
Patrick brought the stories to life so well, but even without that, there is
definitely a sense that you are somewhere quite special and unique. This was
certainly the highlight of Haida Gwaii for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">But whilst
we did consider that the destination is worth the journey, if it felt like a
long way out to S’Gang Gwaay, it felt even further on the way back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">For a bit of
respite, we stopped off again at the rock where the steller sea lions haul out
and hung out with them for a while. We did think at one point, that we were
going to be ‘seen off’ by one of the big males. He seemed to be mouthing off at
us quite a bit, and made his way down to the water, as if he was threatening to
come over and deal with us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I wouldn’t
say that he looked agitated by our presence – and certainly none of the others
did – and he didn’t even seem that aggressive, it just looked like a lot of
posturing. Perhaps he was trying to show off to the ladies or youngsters.
Anyhow, he did get in the water, but didn’t come anywhere near us, just went
and had a little swim around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We finally
arrived back at Queen Charlotte later than expected, and glad that we had kept something
quick and easy to cook when we got home after our thirteen hour day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">If you want to read about our other trip with Haida Style, and see more information about them, you can check out our post about Skedans, here:</span><a href="https://aroundtheworldin8000days.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-trip-to-haida-village-of-skedans.html">https://aroundtheworldin8000days.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-trip-to-haida-village-of-skedans.html</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Remains of a Long House, S'Gang Gwaay, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<br />Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Ninstints, BC V0T, Canada52.099999999999987 -131.216666926.577965499999987 -172.5252609 77.622034499999984 -89.908072900000008tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-86584550684376410982017-09-27T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-27T12:00:14.926+01:00A trip to the Haida village of Skedans<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Totem poles, Skedans village, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On our first
morning in Haida Gwaii, we had booked a tour out to Louise Island, to visit an
old village called Skedans, or to give it its Haida name, K’uuna Llangaay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We did our
boat trips with a company called Haida Style, which is owned by two Haida identical
twin brothers, Shawn and James Cowpar, and they run it with their sister in the
office, their cousin, and a few others. They are certainly a busy bunch, as
alongside this company, most seem to have various roles in the management of
the islands, ranging from conservation to politics. This really does seem to be
the case of having a finger in every pie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">For the two tours
that we did, they ran two boats, one that is fully covered and enclosed, and
the other a large open zodiac with bench seats. For the covered boat, you can
just go in your normal gear, and walk on and off via a ramp, but for the
zodiac, you have to get kitted out in waterproofs and wellies, and you may be
stepping off into shallow water. They seem to generally split the passengers by
age, with the older ones on the covered boat, and younger ones on the zodiac,
so if you have a particular preference for which boat you want to go on, you
should tell them when you book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We were on
the zodiac for this trip, so once we were all dressed up in our gear, we set
off. The zodiac is a bit faster, but also a bit bumpier, and being open, a lot
breezier. We were quite happy though, as it was a lovely day, and we had time
to fit in a quick visit to the rocks where the huge Steller Sea Lions haul out,
and on a close by but separate rock, the seals.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skedans village, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">When we
arrived at Louise Island, we landed at a beautiful little bay, that looked very
inviting indeed. We peeled off our waterproofs, leaving them on the beach. We
were warned, in no uncertain terms, that we should not leave anything like a
phone or other shiny things on the beach – or indeed anywhere unattended – as
there was a strong possibility of it being stolen. They have apparently got
quite a problem here with prolific kleptomaniacs; the guilty perpetrators are
not of the human variety though, here it is the ravens that you have to watch
out for!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Remains of a Haida Long House, Skedans village, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We were met
here by the Watchmen. The Watchmen are Haida people who come and stay on the
island during visiting season, to look after the village. In the past, Watchmen
would have been the lookouts for potential invaders or other threats. They are
depicted on totems by the tall banded hats that they wore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">These days,
the Watchmen can be male or female, and they are less worried about murderous
invaders, and more concerned about tourists damaging or even stealing, the
remains of the village. The Watchmen maintain the pathways, that are denoted by
clam shells, and guide people around the village site, explaining the totems
and telling their stories.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mortuary pole, Skedans village, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">After a cup
of tea and some cookies, the Watchmen and our guides took us around the remains
of the village. There isn’t a great deal here at Skedans, for a number of
reasons. The islands have been abandoned for decades, as after the last
outbreaks of Smallpox disease killed so many, what was left of the tribes all
moved to new settlements in either Skidegate or Old Masset. Since then, the
wooden structures that were here have largely decayed. That is, if the items
weren’t already taken away by white people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As I
mentioned in an earlier post, many of the house posts and memorial posts were
taken away to museums and art collections. Sometimes they were bought by
agreement, although it is pretty dubious how much actual choice the Haida had,
and whether they were given anything even vaguely resembling a fair price.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Memorial pole, Skedans village, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">One of the
more interesting, and still just about standing, or rather leaning, as it has
gradually lowered itself halfway down to the ground, is the memorial pole. The
very tall pole has the remnants of some carving at the bottom end, but is more
notable for the horizontal bands carved all the way up it. These bands – I
counted thirteen of them – each represent a potlatch held by the chief of the
village.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">After our
tour, we had the lunch that the guys had brought with them. For fish eaters, there
were two types of locally line caught salmon, and then there was some lovely
tender local venison too, as well as potatoes and salad. It was all very fresh
and very tasty, so we were all very well fed and happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">There was
also plenty of time for chats with the guides, and to hear their stories. We
liked the very open and informative way that they all spoke with us, as it gave
us a genuine chance to hear about the islands and the Haida people, both as
they lived in the past and as they live now.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Long House and Legacy Pole, Windy Bay, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On the way
back, we made an extra stop at Windy Bay, or Hlk’yah. The village here is
significant as it was the site of one of the key logging protests, that
eventually stopped the mass logging, and led to the creation of the Gwaii
Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">However, the
main point of interest is the 42 foot tall Legacy Pole that was raised here in
2013, to commemorate the twenty year anniversary of the Gwaii Haanas Agreement.
The pole was carved by Jaalen Adenshaw, with assistance from his brother Gwaai,
and Tyler York.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The pole has
a ‘Land, Sea, People’ theme, and the carvings (from the top down) are:</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Eagle - represents the sky and the Haida clan
of Eagle;<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWWM2KDyZNdR-qPD_O0qqIps0Cyjo_KdR6sjspRkUMCUP6ivnfy5_usWsAB25NW0p3oOnuVp-IWjwSivzsqdO07RZAO_QUpueSfsyb5YroQwbYwl6dPD_D3KpK17GU_9HuvNn_q1UGWb0/s1600/P8055350.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">-</span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Three Watchmen – represents the Haida
Watchmen, past and present;</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Legacy Pole, Windy Bay, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">-</span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Visitor – represents those who visit the
islands;</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">-</span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Marten – is shown running up the centre of the
post, which is said to be the sound that happens before an earthquake;</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">-</span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Dog – represents archaeological findings that
date human life on Haida Gwaii to 13-14,000 years ago;</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">-</span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Wasco, or sea wolf – a supernatural being;</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">-</span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Sacred-One-Standing-And-Moving – a supernatural
being that holds up Haida Gwaii. When he moves, the islands shake, and he
represents the big earthquake that they had here in 2012;</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">-</span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Raven – represents the Haida clan of the
Raven;</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">-</span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Five Good People Standing Together – represents
the people who stood in protest against the logging;</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">-</span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Grizzly Bear – represents archaeological findings
that suggest grizzly bears were once on the island, and their link to the old
Haida stories; and </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">-</span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Sculpin – a type of fish, which represents the
sea.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bald eagle swimming, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This was
only a brief stop, as we had to get back out of the shallow channel before the
tide went out and grounded the zodiac. This meant that we almost had to leave a
couple of people behind, as they had wandered off into the forest. They just
made it back in time, but otherwise they might either have had to swim out to
us, or stay the night with the watchmen!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">We had one final and unexpected treat in store on the return journey, when Shawn spotted an eagle swimming. Yes, I did mean to say swimming, and no, I had no idea that eagles could, let alone would, swim. It seems that this guy had caught himself a fish that was too large for him to be able to take off and fly, so he was swimming back to shore with it.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bald eagle swimming, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">We followed at a distance, with the intention of intervening and trying to fish him out of the water if it looked like he was in trouble, but he gradually edged his way there. Sadly, at some point he must have decided that the fish wasn't worth it and abandoned it, so after all of that effort, he was without his dinner, and he had to dry out his waterlogged feathers. Fascinating to see though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Overall,
this was a most enjoyable trip, even though there isn’t all that much to see at
the Skedans village.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">One small
point about both of the trips that we took though, they did get back rather
later than advertised. That wasn’t a problem for us, but is something you should
bear in mind if you are thinking of planning anything that matters afterwards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As it was late
back, and we had not had the chance to do any food shopping yet, we decided to
eat out at the Ocean View restaurant right next to the harbour. We had a pizza,
and I have to say, it was excellent. The base was really light and airy, and
the toppings were plentiful and tasty. I would certainly recommend the pizzas
here, though they didn’t help our diets any!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">And if you are have been reading this post in isolation, and want to know a bit more about the background to Haida Gwaii, then check out my previous post here <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://aroundtheworldin8000days.blogspot.com/2017/09/an-introduction-to-haida-gwaii.html">https://aroundtheworldin8000days.blogspot.com/2017/09/an-introduction-to-haida-gwaii.html</a></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skedans village, Haida Gwaii</td></tr>
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Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Skedans, BC V0T, Canada52.966667 -131.61666727.4446325 -172.925261 78.4887015 -90.308073000000007tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-28915007195104380142017-09-26T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-26T12:00:02.629+01:00An introduction to Haida Gwaii<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7CjTyH9pLh1lKLCqSYSpTrdEtbnW3CrD73hmuTNDMSjUbnHeAWLcvK6GoBjUYgiy5PuLQqSB3NbpOxq8x4vZmqtB-6P4aTjA3EzTEMr5mcmd3wc_F38kPqRCSMLY5cgPTzNVTbZUFiGo/s1600/P8065435.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7CjTyH9pLh1lKLCqSYSpTrdEtbnW3CrD73hmuTNDMSjUbnHeAWLcvK6GoBjUYgiy5PuLQqSB3NbpOxq8x4vZmqtB-6P4aTjA3EzTEMr5mcmd3wc_F38kPqRCSMLY5cgPTzNVTbZUFiGo/s400/P8065435.JPG" width="300" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before we get into what we did here, let me start by telling
you a bit about where we are and what we are doing here. It is a bit long, but
we found the place quite fascinating, and it really helps to understand a bit
about the history here.</span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Islands</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Haida Gwaii, or the Queen Charlotte Islands as it used to be
known, is an archipelago off the northern coast of British Columbia, reaching
almost up to the edge of Alaska. There are around 150 islands in total, but the
two main and largest are Graham Island and Moresby Island; we were staying in
Queen Charlotte on Graham Island.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The islands are sometimes referred to as the northern
Galapagos, because they have quite a diversity of flora and fauna, including
various sub species, like the black bear here that is somewhat larger than
those found elsewhere, or the type of stoat that is smaller than all of the rest.
However, it was not the wildlife we were here to see – which is just as well,
as we hardly saw any. It may be similar to the Galapagos scientifically, but I
think you’d be disappointed if you came here expecting to have the kind of plentiful
and fantastic wildlife experiences that you get in the real thing!</span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Haida People</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unusually for us, we were more interested in the people
here, than the wildlife.
These islands have for centuries, been home to the Haida clans of First Nations
People. It has been suggested that they may have arrived here around 13,000
years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Haida were
a pretty fearsome bunch, known for their aggression in battle, and carrying out
raiding parties against other First Nation tribes, including abducting people
to be used as slaves in their villages.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had read
about these abductions of slaves before arriving, and we had wondered whether
this would be discussed, or just glossed over. We were pleased to find that the
Haida guides that we had were quite open about it. They did make a point of
trying to differentiate between their actions and that of the Black African
Slave Trade, by saying that, whilst people were taken against their will, and
made to work, they were treated considerably better than slavery suggests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were told
that, similar to the need to be seen to be generous at a potlatch, it was
important that you were seen to treat your slaves well. Indeed, there are tales
of them being taken back to their home villages so that they can be shown off
for how well they are cared for. There are also stories that, with the need to
try to avoid too much intermarriage, some slaves even married into the tribes,
although of course being cynical as I am, I have to wonder just how much choice
they had in that matter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With having
slaves to do most of their chores, the Haida had more time on their hands, and
one by product of that is that they spent more time on artistic pursuits,
meaning that their artwork and carvings are some of the most celebrated amongst
First Nations people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Haida
have two clan groups, The Ravens and The Eagles, and they lived in around one hundred settlements scattered about the islands. When
the Europeans arrived, the Haida numbered around 3,000. The initial interaction
was not too bad, focussed on trade and largely leaving the Haida in peace.
However, in time, the British Colony started to encroach on their land, and began
programmes of mining their resources. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And with
increased contact, the Haida, like so many of the indigenous population, were
devastated by outbreaks disease, mostly smallpox, brought over by the white
settlers. By 1900, the Haida population had dwindled to only around 350 people,
a loss of 90% of lives. Eventually, the individual villages were no longer
sustainable, and those that were left moved to new communities in either Old
Masset or Skidegate, on Graham Island, the largest island.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The islands here are a mixed community now. There are around 2,000 Haida
people, with about a third living in Skidegate, a third in Old Masset, and the
rest in other locations. The remaining 2,500 residents are other Canadians and
some foreign settlers.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fight for control of the islands</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1974, whilst the islands were still under the authority of the
Canadian Government, the Haida people set up the Council of the Haida Nations, to
try to establish some degree of control for themselves and to make a claim for
the title of the land. These title claims are a complex issue for the Canadian
Government and Courts, and the issue has still yet to be resolved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For once though, the old Indian Act came may well come to the aid of the
Haida people. In the simplest of terms, it contained a clause that enforced any
land agreements made between the white settlers and the First Nations people;
this is often a bad thing, as those ‘agreements’ were often unfair and forced,
but it does mean that an agreement was necessary. In the case of the Haida
though, they never signed such a treaty, and so it seems that they have a
considerably better chance of arguing that their lands had been taken incorrectly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the meantime, they have already made
significant progress towards gaining control over their lives and lands.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> This came about after the small-scale logging on the islands was
massively increased in scale in the 1980s. The Haida people had already been
trying to protect the southern part of the islands since 1974, but as the
logging escalated, so did their protests. The most important of them was the
Lyell Islands protest, and they succeeded in stopping the logging.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The subsequent South Moresby Agreement in 1988 provided safeguards to
protect the southern part of the islands, with the creation of the Gwaii Haanas
National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site, and placed the lands under a
shared stewardship with the Haida people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was further improved in 1993, with the signing of the Gwaii Haanas
Agreement, which created the Archipelago Management Board, which has equal
membership from the Council of Haida Nations and, at the time Parks Canada, but
now more widely from the Government of Canada. Then in 2010, the Haida Gwaii
Reconciliation Act created a marine reserve in the area, and also changed the
name of the islands to Haida Gwaii (Islands of the People).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This joint decision making was reinforced by a court ruling in 2004,
which specifically prevents the Canadian authorities from making decisions that
may have a negative impact on their lives and lands, without consulting with
the Haida people.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What's so special here?</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One advantage of the islands being remote and hard to each, is that,
unlike many old First Nations villages on the mainland, many of the settlements
here were not taken over by white settlers. Instead, the villages were simply
abandoned and, whilst a combination of time, weathering and the scavenging of
collectors, means that there is not all that much to see, it is possible to
visit some of them, to get a glimpse of how they used to live.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anthony Island is home to a particularly good example, the old Haida village
of SGang Gwaay. This village remains here are sufficiently impressive that, in
1981, the site was granted UNESCO World Heritage Site status. It is this that we
have come to see.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span>Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada53.1013888 -132.0406057000000150.6602248 -137.20417970000003 55.5425528 -126.87703170000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-56229660451228617952017-09-24T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-24T12:00:10.606+01:00Another day, another ferry, this time to Haida Gwaii<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ApbyU8SU1952oQr3BXFB8EI0kk_LFcFtcFI4F9BK9ZoFACCM811xN-gn-CZQQlRawqIvnNxDil_Z-DfDCKj380qyKZ7_mL3naeoGGM1MRGZt_Ii_MIH9RZbdAKzowKDdxPujYUSxIJA/s1600/P8075548.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ApbyU8SU1952oQr3BXFB8EI0kk_LFcFtcFI4F9BK9ZoFACCM811xN-gn-CZQQlRawqIvnNxDil_Z-DfDCKj380qyKZ7_mL3naeoGGM1MRGZt_Ii_MIH9RZbdAKzowKDdxPujYUSxIJA/s400/P8075548.JPG" width="400" /></a>Today’s ferry wasn’t as early, or
nearly as long as the last one, but it wasn’t such nice scenery either. The
journey was fine, but there wasn’t much to look at most of the way, which I
suppose was good in a way, as it gave us both a chance to catch up with some of
our tasks, including getting a few more blog posts written. And this time, we
did a better job of sticking to our meal plan too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">We arrived in Skidegate, collected our
bags, and went to queue for a taxi, only to be met by a rather grumpy man, who
told us that we should have booked a taxi, that he was waiting for someone who
had booked, and various other unhelpful comments. We were trying to establish
whether we could book a cab now, or put our name on a list or something, but he
really wasn’t listening, so we were getting nowhere. Then just as we were
considering going off to try to hitch our way to Queen Charlotte – hitching is
apparently a vey common mode of transport here – he suddenly said, “OK, get
in”. I have no idea what changed, but we didn’t argue, and hopped in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">I wish I could say that this was the
end of his grumpiness, but no, it continued for the entirety of the journey. It
wasn’t directed so much at us, but he grumbled his way about various other
people. He also reckoned that the address we were going to didn’t exist. Now,
Queen Charlotte isn’t a big place. We only stayed there six days, and by the
end of that we were giving other new arrivals directions, so given that he
reckons he’s been driving a cab here for 25 years, I just don’t believe that he
didn’t know where it was.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">But we went on a little mystery tour
nonetheless, before suddenly and miraculously, he worked out where to find it.
It wasn’t even a ploy to get more money, as he charged us the standard fare, so
I can only assume that he just likes being cantankerous. We spoke to a local
about him later, and they knew exactly who we were talking about and confirmed
that this was his usual jolly self.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span id="goog_1017036472"></span><span id="goog_1017036473"></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Anyhow, we arrived at our Airbnb, and
were made very welcome by our host and her longer-term guest. We got ourselves
settled in, and then tottered our way down the short but rather steep hill down
towards the visitors’ centre, and to take a look around, before heading back to
the house to make ourselves our dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On the subject of
food, if you do come here and plan to self cater, then if you have the
opportunity, bring a few groceries with you. We had a bit of trouble getting to
the supermarket around our day tours, and when you do get there, they
don't have a great deal of choice and prices are fairly high. Thankfully,
we had bought the first day's dinner with us. Of course, if you are happy
to eat out, there are a few decent places around, which I will mention as we
get to them later on.</span></span><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Skidegate, BC V0T, Canada53.2665 -131.9913153999999627.7444655 -173.29990939999996 78.7885345 -90.682721399999963tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-13080898075801865712017-09-23T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-23T12:00:18.743+01:00Between ferries in Prince Rupert<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We were
staying in Prince Rupert for two nights to get the next ferry over to Haida
Gwaii, which would be another early start, but not as bad as last time, this
time we had a taxi booked for 7:30am. It comes to something when that starts to
feel like a lay-in!</span></div>
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have another couple of days here after our time on Haida Gwaii, so we didn’t
have to rush to fit things in, and it was a lovely sunny day, so we just
pootled down to the Cow Bay area, and had a look at the shops and had lunch
there.</span></div>
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blow out on the ferry, we were planning to be good, but options were rather
lacking. We ended up going to the much-recommended Breakers Pub, where we could
sit at a table on the balcony overlooking the harbour, where we discovered that
the seals were out in force to scoop up the fishy leftovers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I had
decided on my usual standby of a steak, some rice and a salad, which would fit
in at least mostly with the rules, but then I saw the guy next to me have his
fries delivered, and they looked delicious. Chips are definitely one of the
things that I miss, but usually I can resist ordering them on the basis that
they often aren’t that good anyway. On this occasion though, it was quite
evident that the beer-battered chips they were serving up were excellent, so I
gave in and had them. I can’t say I regret it either, they were that good!</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Prince Rupert, BC, Canada54.3150367 -130.3208187000000254.1666602 -130.6435422 54.4634132 -129.99809520000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-79606594912211629432017-09-21T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-21T12:00:13.674+01:00Up The Inside Passage!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I don’t like
early mornings, so I can’t say that I was overly impressed that our 5am shuttle
didn’t actually turn up until half an hour later, as I could have had an extra
half hour in bed. We got to the ferry the required two hours before
departure; quite why we had to be there that early, just to then sit in the
harbour for a couple of hours, I really don’t know. OK, OK, I know, I’m grumpy
about early mornings! Enough of that,
onto the post.</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We had opted
to take the daytime ferry, despite the early start, because it travels up the
Inside Passage, which we understood was a rather lovely journey. And it was
indeed good scenery, albeit a lot of it quite similar, with lots of rugged, tree lined shorelines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Clearly though, I wasn't nearly as impressed as the man sitting at the next table, who was telling his younger companion, probably his son, that “You can’t get
scenery like this anywhere else in the world.” I can only assume that he doesn't travel much, and has never seen images of Norway, for just one example. I resisted pointing this out to him though, and contented myself with just rolling my eyes and muttering to Nic instead. Thinking about it afterwards, I can't decide whether to feel happy for the guy because he believes that he (thinks that he) lives in a uniquely beautiful place, sorry for him because he obviously hasn't seen the other similarly beautiful places, or frustrated by him appearing to be so ignorant that they exist!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Despite
all our good intentions with food, by the time the ferry actually set sail, we
had long since eaten our allocated portion of healthy cereal, skimmed milk and
fruit, so when the restaurant opened for breakfast, we decided to give it a
try. Nic was thrilled, as he has harboured the desire to be an honorary hobbit,
ever since he discovered that they have a second breakfast!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In fact, we
weren’t too badly behaved with our breakfast, so it wasn’t the end of the
world. And we were OK for lunch, as we had our healthy salad. The problem came
at dinner, when having been told by a regular user of this ferry that the
restaurant buffet is excellent, we decided to give it a go. This was a mistake
on so many levels.</span><br />
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selection really wasn’t good for me, so my choice was limited to some pretty
tasteless and very fatty slices of beef, some very dried out rice, and a
combination of over and undercooked vegetables. I did have a cup of soup which
wasn’t bad, but of course I added a slice of bread to that, which was naughty.
Nic was happier with his meal – he had more choice, and he assures me that his
food was better quality, but it wasn’t very diet friendly.</span><br />
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was, the one part of the buffet that genuinely did look rather inviting, was
the desserts. By which time, I was still hungry, and now I was grumpy too, so I
threw the diet out of the window (or should that be porthole), and filled my
plate with apple crumble, chocolate cake, chocolate mints, a lemon cakey thing,
and goodness knows what else. Nic was no better, and we both ended up stuffed
and feeling rather guilty! Oh well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Food aside,
it was a long journey, but it was at </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">least a pleasant one, and I spent quite a
bit of time out on deck watching for whales. There were quite a few along the
way, mostly too far away to get any decent view of anything other than the jet
from the blowhole, but there were a few that were close enough to see the fin
and the tail fluke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We arrived
in Prince Rupert at about midnight, and shared a taxi to our hostel with two
others who were also staying there.</span><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Inside Passage, Alaska, USA54.800684999999987 -131.4404329.278650499999987 -172.749024 80.322719499999991 -90.131835999999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-52809117121377390672017-09-20T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-20T12:00:07.508+01:00Going around in circles to get to Port Hardy
<span style="font-family: Arial;">After we got
back from Alert Bay, we jumped straight into the car for the 350km drive back
to Nanaimo, to drop off the hire car. We had originally hoped to hire a car
that we could drop in Port Hardy, our final destination on Vancouver Island,
but that had proved too awkward and expensive, so instead, we were driving back
to Nanaimo, dropping off the car, spending a night in the hostel there, and in
the morning, getting a seven hour bus to Port Hardy, which is only about an hour’s
drive away from Port McNeill. Oh well, such is life!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The drive
down wasn’t bad, and we stopped off for dinner in Courtenay again, this time
without having to make any silly detours for elusive petrol stations. I was a
bit concerned about seeing the engine warning light lit up on the panel, but
had been assured by the rental company that it was OK to drive, and thankfully
it made it back OK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The next
morning, we came all the way back again, with a brief stop for food in Campbell
River, and having hit roadworks along the way, arrived in Port Hardy, late, at 6:30
pm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We were only
here for the one night, just to catch our ferry in the morning, so no touristy
stuff to be done here, just a bit of food shopping. We had checked on the
website to find out whether we could get healthy food on the two ferries we
would be taking over the next few days, and weren’t that hopeful that the
options available would do our diets much good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As we were
also going be having a lot of long train journeys coming up, with food choices
being ‘oh so healthy’ options like pizza pops and cheeseburgers, we had bought
ourselves a coolbag, which we were planning to stuff with salads, cold meats,
fruit and some skimmed milk to go in our tea and with our healthy breakfast
cereal. We weren’t aiming to cover every meal, but we figured that if could
make two out of three meals OK, it would at least limit any damage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So, we did
some shopping, prepared our food, and then got ourselves to bed early, as the
ferry shuttle bus was arriving to collect us at the unearthly hour of 5am.</span></div>
Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Port Hardy, BC, Canada50.7123867 -127.4603930000000150.5513447 -127.7831165 50.873428700000005 -127.13766950000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-90546306891396759142017-09-19T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-19T12:00:31.238+01:00The U’mista Cultural Centre, Alert Bay
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The pride of
Alert Bay is the U’mista Cultural Centre, which opened in 1980, and has an
excellent display of artifacts relating to an important part of the culture of
the First Nations people - the Potlatch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The word
potlatch comes from a word meaning ‘to give’, and that is loosely what the
potlatch is about, the giving of gifts as a show of your generosity. The First
Nations people place a high a value on a person’s generosity, so Chiefs would
wish to display theirs by giving gifts, and a potlatch was where this would
happen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">However, it
was rather more important than that, as the potlatch effectively formed part of
their legal process too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Potlatches
were held by the chief of a tribe to mark important events. Much like in our
own culture, people might gather to mark significant life events, such as
births, marriages and deaths, and the coronations or inaugurations of new
leaders. But whereas for us, the purpose of attending an event is simply to
celebrate or commemorate it, for the First Nations people it would also serve
the equivalent purpose of the legal record.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The U'Mista Cultural Centre, Alert Bay</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We leave all
that to the registrar or some other official, who keeps a written record of
what has transpired, but in this culture, there is no such official, and no
written communication, so the people who attended the event, which would
include those from other tribes, would effectively act as those who would bear
witness to it, should the need ever arise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The potlatch
ceremony would include storytelling and dance, and whatever the official
business of the day was, followed by the giving out of the gifts. The fact that
the guests take the gifts offered, confirms that they accept the event that has
taken place, and will attest to it.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The U'Mista Cultural Centre, Alert Bay</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This was all
fine until we white settlers came along and wanted to ‘civilise’ everyone.
Quite why we have the arrogance to believe that our way of doing things is the
only right way, I don’t know, but that’s a question for another day. It wasn’t
a problem early on, but as the colonial systems became established,
frustrations grew with those pesky people that would insist on doing things
their own way.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chilkat Blanket, The U'Mista Cultural Centre, Alert Bay</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In 1884, the
first version of the Indian Act was passed, in an effort to stop the potlatch
taking place, but it was ineffectual. The law was later revised, and when the
potlatches continued, the authorities started to crack down. In December 1921,
a potlatch was held in a place called Village Island, and forty-five people
were arrested. Twenty-two of those were convicted of offences such as dancing,
making speeches, and the giving of gifts.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The U'Mista Cultural Centre, Alert Bay</td></tr>
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sentences were suspended on condition that the tribe that each individual
belonged to turned in all of their masks, chests and other items that were
connected to </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">the holding of a potlatch. The items confiscated were thankfully
not destroyed, but were passed out to two main museums and private collectors.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chilkat Blanket, The U'Mista Cultural Centre, Alert Bay</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In this way,
the First Nations tribes lost a huge part of their culture and heritage, as
well as their established method of recording events. Some potlatches did
continue ‘underground’ usually held during storms, when only the First Nations
people were confident in travelling by canoe, as would have been necessary to
reach the venues.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Items made from woven cedar bark, The U'Mista Cultural Centre, Alert Bay</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Whilst I’m
not going to go into it further now, I do just want to mention that of course
the potlatch wasn’t the only thing that was banned. The legislation banned the
use of First Nations languages, and required children to be sent to
‘residential schools’ where they were taught to abandon their own ways in
favour of western culture and process, undermining the ability of the First
Nations people to keep their culture and way of life alive.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chilkat Blanket, The U'Mista Cultural Centre, Alert Bay</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Indian
Act was revised again in 1951, and section 149 on the banning of the potlatch
was deleted, but never officially repealed.
Nonetheless, in the latter third of the 1900s, steps were taken to start
repatriating the potlatch ceremonial items that had been confiscated.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The U'Mista Cultural Centre, Alert Bay</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The
National Museum of Man in Ottawa, which had received a large share of the
items, decided to return them to the First Nations people, on condition that
two new museums were built to house them. This U’mista Cultural Centre is one
of the two museums, and it now has a great collection of items.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Unfortunately,
no photos were allowed in that section of the museum, so I can’t show you any
of the pieces that they have. The photos that I have included were from the
permitted section, and show other items of First Nations art and weaving.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The U'Mista Cultural Centre, Alert Bay</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Those
sections are OK, but probably not as good as the museums in Vancouver and
Victoria. In terms of information and analysis, I would have liked to see more
exploration of the issues surrounding the potlatch being banned, its impact,
how the tribes tried to adapt, and now that it is being brought back into the
culture, how these traditional aspects and stories are being reconciled with more
western education, knowledge and process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">That said,
the museum is definitely worth a visit, just for the potlatch ceremonial items,
which are both interesting for their history and great pieces of artwork in
their own right.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Head and neckwear, The U'Mista Cultural Centre, Alert Bay</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We spent the
night back at Port McNeill, which is one of those places that probably doesn’t
get a huge number of tourists itself, but acts as a gateway to another
destination. There is nothing wrong with it, and it is always interesting to
see a ‘normal’ town, but there isn’t a great deal to do. Of course, some thirty
minutes into the drive out of town, we realised that we had forgotten to go and
see the one claim to fame that they do have here – the world’s largest burr. In
fact, not just one, but two.</span><br />
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are not familiar with a burr, it is that lumpy outgrowth that you sometimes get
on a tree, usually caused when the tree is trying to protect itself against
some kind of attack, and envelopes the invading disease or bug, to prevent it
getting into the core of the tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now you may
wonder just how big something like that can get, and I can tell you; these two have
circumferences of 45 foot and 62 feet, and weigh in at 22 and around 30 tonnes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">No, we
didn’t turn the car around and do an hour of extra driving just to go back, but
I have borrowed a photo for the town’s website to show you, one of them sitting
in it little gazebo, so that you don’t miss out on seeing it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So, if we
weren’t there for the giant burr, why were we there. Well, this is where you
get the ferry to a Cormorant Island, and more specifically, to Alert Bay. The
island is only eight miles all the way around, but it has become a popular
place to visit because of its colonial and First Nations heritage. Getting off
the ferry, we stopped off at the visitor’s centre, where we were given a very
helpful introduction and maps etc.</span></div>
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the main buildings in town date back to around the end of the 1800s, or the
start of the next century. There used to be a huge 1870s Fish Saltery next to
the location of the ferry terminal, which then became a canning factory in
1902, until the business closed in 1941. That is gone now, but a bit further
down, you can see the old net loft buildings.</span></div>
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prettier, more colourful buildings are the old Municipal Hall, the Old Customs
House and the Old Court House. Aside from the first of those, which is now the
Visitor’s Centre, the buildings here are generally are private premises or
lodgings, so you can’t go inside them.</span></div>
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attraction, albeit one that we didn’t have time to check out, was the
Ecological Park. This is an unusual swamp area on a hill, that was created when
a dam was built half way up the hill to store water for the fish cannery, the
natural springs caused the whole area to flood, and it killed off the trees.
The area has now been set aside with a boardwalk of trails created. Apparently,
they used to call the place Gator Park, even though it never had any
alligators; they have since dropped that name, but it seems to have stuck with
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that there aren’t a lot of here, is places to get something to eat, especially
if, like us, you are pressed for time. We
did follow a local recommendation to try the bannock, a name that I was
equating with the Scottish fruitcake, but which turned out to be basically
deep-fried dough. It really wasn’t going to do our diets much good, so we had
it to take away, ate about half between us – it was rather tasty after all –
but ditched the rest, in an admittedly fairly poor effort to limit the
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The main
attraction here though is not the houses, the swamp nor the bannock, but rather
it is the collection of totem poles and the U’mista Cultural Centre. I’ll talk
about the Cultural Centre in the next post, but for now, we can take a look at
some of the poles, including what they claim is the tallest totem pole in the
world. I say claim, because I have seen the same claim made about one in Victoria
too, and I can’t say which is right. The leaflet we were given refers to a 163
foot tall pole and a 10 foot pole, but then says that the top of the pole fell
down during high winds in 2007, so it may be that with the extra 10 foot it was
the tallest, but no longer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In any case,
it is quite tall. I got Nic to stand at the bottom of it for a photo, to give
you a sense of the scale of it. It was carved by Jimmy Dick and five
assistants, and as it is not a specific family post, its images show some of
the tribes of the local Kwakwaka’wakw people. The carving was finished in the
late 1960s, but was only raised up in 1973.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As to the
rest, I can’t tell you a great deal about them. There are a couple of stories,
but I should leave those for you to discover for yourselves if you ever visit
the place. So, I will just leave you with some photos.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">World's Tallest Totem pole (perhaps), Alert Bay</td></tr>
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Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Port McNeill, BC, Canada50.590142 -127.084755150.5498125 -127.1654361 50.6304715 -127.0040741tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-61329391231373842072017-09-16T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-16T12:00:07.731+01:00Whale Watching<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orcas, Telegraph Cove</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We only had
one night in Telegraph Cove, as they were all booked up for the second night,
so we stayed in nearby Port McNeill, which was going to be our next
destination, and was only a thirty-minute drive away. But we had to come back
in the morning, as we had another trip booked, this time with Stubbs Island
Whale Watching.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fin whale skeleton, Telegraph Cove</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We had
arrived a bit early, and used the spare time to take a look around the Whale
Interpretative Centre. As I mentioned before, it is small, but it is
interesting, and has lots of information about how they identify the different
orca pods in the region, as well as some skeletons of whales and other sea
mammals.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sea otter skeleton, Telegraph Cove</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In all
honesty, we weren’t feeling as enthusiastic for this trip as we might have
been. The boat is a bit bigger than yesterday's, with more people on it, and we had had such good
sightings of orcas yesterday, that we didn’t really think that this trip would
match up.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jellyfish, Telegraph Cove</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Not that
there was anything wrong with the trip. We set off straight away to find the
orca pod that was in the area. It took a while, as they were quite a way out,
but when we arrived it was a large pod, and they allowed us to get nice and
close, with a couple of them coming right up around us briefly. There was a zodiac nearby, and the orcas
treated them to a really close encounter, which would have been great for them
being so low in the water.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orcas, Telegraph Cove</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It is lovely
to see the orcas all around, and so close by, but sadly they weren’t feeling
playful today, so we didn’t really get any spy hops, and no breaches, which is
a bit of a shame. It was still great, it’s just that we were spoiled yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Our guides
today did give us a bit more information about the orcas and their situation,
which was both interesting and worrying. They showed us the results of some
tests that they ran to check on the level of microplastics that the orcas are
absorbing into their bodies.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orcas, Telegraph Cove</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The microplastics,
about the size of coffee grains, are ingested by everything from plankton to orcas,
and as well as damaging the creatures internally, they can also make them think
that they are not hungry, which can cause them to starve. Of course, because the
orcas eat the smaller marine life, they ingest the microplastics in their
bodies too.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Microplastic pollution</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">The bottles
in the picture show a representation of the levels that they found. The smallest
amount is the acceptable level. The middle amount is the level that is found in
the orcas in this area, at the northern end of Vancouver Island, where the
human population density and pollutants are lower. The largest amount is what
they found in orcas at the southern end of the island, closer to Victoria and
Vancouver. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The levels
are quite concerning, and they seem to be reflected in the life expectancy of
the orcas. The females are living to around 70-80 years old, but the males are
only surviving to about half that age. The experts believe that the pollutants
are the cause of the shorter lifespan in males, and that the reasons that the
females are no affected, is that they unwittingly pass on the pollutants to
their calves when they give birth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It is sad to
see the damage that we are doing to the habitat of these lovely creatures, and
indeed that we may still be endangering their existence. We had been feeling a little awkward about keep insisting on not being given a straw in a drink, but this just renewed our resolve to keep on with that, and feeling even more determined to minimise our use of all plastics. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eagle, Telegraph Cove</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">After
watching the orcas for a while, we set off in search of other creatures, and
came across a big flock of birds feeding on the water, including a couple of
eagles, which we watched for a while.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Humpback, Telegraph Cove</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Our next
encounter was with a humpback, which hovered on the surface briefly before
giving us a nice tail fluke as it dived back down again.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVax86AMZu5rHsXOPSj-ix79lkhYgd9iwdHUne2yKI0PH6tfHDhVi1GcrgL1aT8ZhnhOiWh-yfoO1WVY6cgpMAWyu-3DMy6cJpuiqXnWWirhbx0jlklsi3LL0uSFy5_dCsMu-csoe_vPc/s1600/P7304934+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="957" data-original-width="1275" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVax86AMZu5rHsXOPSj-ix79lkhYgd9iwdHUne2yKI0PH6tfHDhVi1GcrgL1aT8ZhnhOiWh-yfoO1WVY6cgpMAWyu-3DMy6cJpuiqXnWWirhbx0jlklsi3LL0uSFy5_dCsMu-csoe_vPc/s200/P7304934+%25282%2529.JPG" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Humpback, Telegraph Cove</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Squiggle the Humpback, Telegraph Cove</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After that, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the
guides took</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> us over to an area where they had spotted a second humpback diving.
They positioned the boat a little way from where they thought it would emerge,
and we all gazed expectantly off into the distance, waiting for it.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Squiggle the Humpback, Telegraph Cove</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Then, all
of a sudden, it appeared, not off in the distance, but literally right next to
us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">She was so
close, that we actually felt her bump the boat. Needless to say, we were
thrilled to have her pop up so close.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Squiggle the Humpback, Telegraph Cove</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">She hovered
for a moment, presumably thinking “Bugger, where did that lump of metal come
from?”, and then ducked down and passed under the boat, popping up on the other
side. It stayed on the surface briefly, giving us an excellent view of her
slightly mangled dorsal fin that had led to her being named Squiggle, and then
flicked up her tail and dived down.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrBZvMNbnGu3xNZ_Vy8TTX3e34sTv1p4Xkc3TRkWnPpJIEz2oHezV-E9pPTuYI-vq6EVoxmsdCiw9TzSvNiz7OFMieeJKXIAPfx7hLoOcGr1FoSArp4jGJ-MLZIsqW7a4cv_0sRqHNR2U/s1600/P7304989.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrBZvMNbnGu3xNZ_Vy8TTX3e34sTv1p4Xkc3TRkWnPpJIEz2oHezV-E9pPTuYI-vq6EVoxmsdCiw9TzSvNiz7OFMieeJKXIAPfx7hLoOcGr1FoSArp4jGJ-MLZIsqW7a4cv_0sRqHNR2U/s400/P7304989.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bald eagle, Telegraph Cove</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Of course,
with having the zoom lense attached to the camera, it wasn’t easy to get her
properly into the frame for photos, but that wasn’t really the point. It was
great to see her so very close. In any case, we did better than the
professional photographer on board, who had one of the huge fixed zoom lenses;
he had no chance of taking any pictures that close up. Like us though, he was
just excited to have seen her there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We finished
off the day with a bald eagle that was drying itself out on some rocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In the end,
what had started out as a nice, but unremarkable trip, became an unforgettable one,
simply due to that one close encounter with a humpback called Squiggle. And
that is the nature of wildlife watching.</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Telegraph Cove, BC V0N, Canada50.5492459 -126.8322509999999925.027211400000002 -168.14084499999998 76.0712804 -85.523656999999986tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-33385301529908423562017-09-14T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-14T12:00:07.458+01:00A Glut of Grizzly Bears<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We spent the
night in one of the old houses in the Cove, and were up early in the morning
for our trip with Tide Rip Grizzly Bear Tours. There were three boats going out,
and we were on one with guides Nate and Matt, who kept us entertained and fed
along the ninety-minute journey out to Knight Inlet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We caught a glimpse of a
few Dall’s Porpoise, and a Steller Sea Lion, just to get us started on our
wildlife spotting.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Humpback whale at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Just before
we arrived, Nate stopped the boat, as he had spotted a humpback in the area.
Sure enough, not long afterwards we heard the splash as it popped up out of the
water, and we watched it for the short time it was up before, with a quick
flash of its tail fluke, it dived back down again.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grizzly bears at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR4Q5k8z-kBHGIBahybQisqiy-MpmBoqVDFuyQ8ftErZe0JwgK2IPCTcZARXHbctuZwMHTIA4XeJD8fopJR_iLp_TAEKk9jl1dguuQxLRm3bnPjA0ar3qAwtjE-QaR8U2DbUoyZM2dlvY/s1600/P7294600.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">That little
extra in the bag, we covered the last few minutes into the inlet where we
transferred over to a skiff that would take us around the edge of the inlet to
watch the bears. These skiffs are basically just a floating platform with some
seats (that rarely got used), and a little upper platform for those that
fancied a higher perspective. They have a really flat bottom, so that they can
go close inland where the water is really shallow, and whilst they have a
little motor for the bigger distances, the guys get togged up in waders, so
that they can jump in the water and drag us around, keeping us as close as
possible to the bears without disturbing them.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We knew that
they generally do have the bears turn up here, to comb along the shoreline in
search of a seafood meal, but still, as with all wildlife watching trips, you
never really know what you are going to see. So we were thrilled to see our
first glimpses of a bear with two year-old cubs on one side of the inlet.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grizzly bears at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">We were
momentarily disappointed when our guides took us off in the opposite direction,
but that soon passed when we saw why. There was a bear with her little
six-month old cub, and they were really close to the shoreline, giving us a
great view of them. We watched these two for a while, happy to see that, while
mum noted our presence, she clearly was not at all concerned about us being
there. The guides did give mum a name, but I can’t remember what it was now.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mum feeding cub, Grizzly bears at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">They foraged
for a while, but then we were treated to something that showed just how
comfortable mum was, when she sat down, and started to suckle the cub. Now this
was fascinating - not so much seeing it,
but hearing it. All the while the cub was suckling, it made this strange noise
that I can best describe as a kind of rumbly whirring sound. Apparently, it is
both an indication of happiness, and bit like a cat purring, and the vibration
helps the milk to flow better. This really was one of those priceless moments
in wildlife watching when you get to see something unexpected and amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">She finished
feeding the cub and tried to go back to foraging, but the cub was hoping for a
bit more and pestered her. She ignored him for a while, but then her patience
ran out and she told the cub off. They carried on without further bother, and
we watched them a little while longer, before leaving them to it, and going
over to the other side to see the other bears.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bearded Lady, Grizzly bears at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">By now,
there were two sets of bears over on the other side, the mum (Bella) and her
year-olds that we had glimpsed earlier, and the sister (Bearded Lady) of the
one we had just been watching, with her two younger cubs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We ended up
watching the two sets intermittently, Bella, the older mum, was clearly feeling
pretty lazy at the moment, largely just staying settled down next to a rock
while her two cubs foraged nearby. The paler coloured cub is a male, and the
darker a female.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bella, Grizzly bears at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Bearded
lady, on the other hand, was definitely out to find food, and her little cubs
stayed fairly close by, learning as they watched their mum turn over rocks to
get to whatever morsels might be hiding beneath them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As we
watched, it soon became apparent that Bearded Lady was on a course to go straight
past Bella. Now this is quite unusual, as grizzly bears generally like to
maintain a bit of personal space, especially if they have cubs. It may be that
they are all very used to each other being here, so some of the ‘rules’ are a
bit more relaxed, but still, we wee interested to see how this would play out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Bella may
have been feeling lazy, but it wasn’t long before she noticed the other bear
headed in her direction. Both cubs had returned to sit with mum, and the three
of them looked on as Bearded Lady walked along the beach towards them. Bearded
Lady meanwhile, walked on as if she didn’t even know Bella was there, although
her cubs both had a few glances in her direction as they neared.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bearded Lady passes Bella, Grizzly bears at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It seems
that, for whatever reason, Bella decided that she had nothing to be concerned
about, and as they approached, she just lay back down, almost as if to say
“Pah, you’re not worth bothering to get up for!” So Bearded Lady and her two,
strolled past unhindered, and we were treated to the wonderful chance to get a
photo with six bears in the frame.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grizzly bears at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">By now it
was time for our lunch, which we had on the skiff landing pier, in a spot where
we could still keep an eye on the bears, albeit from a little further away,
presumably so that they didn’t become tempted to try to help themselves to our
meal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Back out on
the boats, we were soon in for another treat, when Bella – now feeling a bit
more lively – decided to get into the water and make a meal of the barnacles
that were clinging to the wooden posts. It was great to watch the three of them
holding on to the posts as they fed, and we were able to get really close, as
you can see from where the other skiff is on the other side.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grizzly bears at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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off for the end of the inlet, where a whole cluster of bears had formed. We saw
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grizzly bears at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Two others were hiding out in the long grass at the back, often with just their ears poking up visible. And we saw one go charging off into the tree line, we think in pursuit of a deer that we had seen running in there just beforehand.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grizzly bears at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">And finally,
we found a mum and her three cubs, that were probably two years old. Sadly I
missed capturing the moment in a photo, but mum was sufficiently interested in
the kerfuffle when the bear was chasing the deer, that she stood right up on
her hind legs to take a better look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We watched
the bears for a little longer, but then it was time to say goodbye, and return
to the boats for the journey back. We saw at least sixteen grizzlies today,
which we were pretty impressed with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">But our day
wasn’t over yet, we had one more encounter ahead. Nate and Matt managed to find
us one of the orca pods, and they were putting on quite a show. I’ll talk more
about orcas in the next post, but this was a great viewing, as whilst they
didn’t come all that close, they did a lot of spy-hopping (poking their heads
up out of the water), showing us their tail flukes, and one even treated us to
a full breach or cartwheel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I don't generally make recommendations about tour companies, as we can only base it on our one trip, and have no comparisons with other operators, but this trip was really excellent, so based on our experience, I would happily recommend them.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grizzly bears at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grizzly bears at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bella's male cub, Grizzly bears at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bella's female cub, Grizzly bears at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grizzly bears at Knight Inlet</td></tr>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Knight Inlet, Mount Waddington A, BC, Canada50.888319900000013 -125.5856825999999850.246932900000012 -126.87657609999998 51.529706900000015 -124.29478909999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-84705674903768720452017-09-13T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-13T12:00:23.950+01:00Telegraph Cove
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">From Tofino,
we drove back to the east coast, and on up towards the north, to a little place
called Telegraph Cove. It took us slightly longer than expected, because after
stopping for lunch in Courtenay, we came back off the main road to get fuel,
and instead of it being just off the road as we thought it would be, it was
quite a bit further.</span></div>
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no real idea where we were, we managed to go in the wrong direction, so had to
retrace our steps and ended up on the coastal road instead of the main highway.
As mistakes go though, it wasn’t a bad one to make, as the views along the way
were lovely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">We were soon
back joined up with the main road at Campbell River, and we eventually made it
to Telegraph Cove. The little information sheet that we picked up at the
accommodation reception, which also doubled as a café and a visitors’ centre,
describes the place as ‘a quaint boardwalk community’, and that is probably
about right. If you take away the campsite, RV parking area, and the related
café and souvenir shop, and all you have left are the early 1900s timber houses
that line the boardwalk, and it does all look very pretty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The community
started when a telegraph station was put here on 1911, and grew a little around
nine years later, when Albert Wastell, the land owner, started up a Japanese
salmon saltery. This led to building a sawmill to cut logs and build boxes to
put the salmon in. However the endeavour was a little short-lived, and by the
1930s, the saltery was closed, and the sawmill had to scrape by through the
sale of lumber.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">With the
advent of WWII, business picked up, and the settlement took off – to the extent
that somewhere this size can be regarded as having ‘taken off’. The workers at
the sawmill brought their families, and a proper community was created,
including a school and a post office. The sixty-strong community got its
electricity from the sawmill’s steam generator, but only until the steam
engineer controlling it went to bed. It amused us to read that he would dim the
lights five minutes before he was going to retire for the night, to give everyone
a chance to fire up their oil lamps before the lights went out.</span></div>
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the old buildings have been largely turned into tourist accommodation, a café
and a restaurant, and the business here is mostly fishing and wildlife tours,
but the conversion has been done tastefully, without destroying the character
of the place. They also have a small Whale Interpretive Centre here, which
doesn’t have a lot, but what it has is quite interesting, and worth spending
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that the café, which has prime position at the water’s edge, closes early, but
as the weather was nice on the evening we arrived, we could enjoy sitting at
the end of the boardwalk, and being able to see a pod of orcas out in the bay,
giving us a taste of what was to come over the next couple of days.</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Telegraph Cove, BC V0N, Canada50.5492459 -126.8322509999999925.027211400000002 -168.14084499999998 76.0712804 -85.523656999999986tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-13990422072011459752017-09-12T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-12T12:00:13.246+01:00Black Bears in Tofino
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Whilst Nic
was eager to avoid encountering a bear when he was out in training for his half
marathon in October, we were both quite keen on finding a few to watch in a
more controlled environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We had seen black bears when we were in Whistler,
back in 2013, but we rather liked the idea of the tour here, that takes you out
on a boat to watch them as they comb the shoreline at low tide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Of course,
low tide also means early morning, so this was the start of what was to become
a worrying pattern over the next few weeks, of far too many alarms set for a
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ourselves out of bed, grateful at least, for the fact that the Remote Passages
tour company was only a few minutes stumble along the road! </span></div>
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kitted out with our waterproof gear, and then we were off into the zodiac. Mind
you, whilst this was a zodiac, after being used to perching on the edge of a
small zodiac in the Arctic and Antarctic, this big one with actual seats, felt
like a luxury option.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOXPp3bfKAYiTT70e-vl2190aibqh5nsEbon2wCJq-azeierPFf0ThH9-C9wqbFYiMzFv_dKp-Ohoklv8RNumHx6yB8K7COVlngwXKOcJRzDt0ILkCX0j3qb8DriHXe7ciyO1hgSBmHU/s1600/P7263482.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">We set off
across the water at a brisk pace, a little concerned about how misty it was,
and so whether we would be able to see any bears at all.</span></div>
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stayed rather dull and dreary, the worst of the mist cleared away, and so
visibility at least wasn’t going to be a problem. The next question was would
we find any bears?</span></div>
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45 minutes, we reached the area where we were hoping to spot some bears. Sure
enough, we soon spotted a couple foraging on the shoreline, though sadly they
only stuck around for a few moments before disappearing into the trees.</span></div>
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long though until we found two more bears, and this time they were completely
unperturbed by our presence, and we were able to watch them search along the
water edge for goodies like barnacles, clams and other creatures. It was fascinating
to watch them roll over the rocks to see if there were any tasty morsels hiding
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rocks they moved were big too. Unfortunately, the best series of photos that I
have of this are pretty rubbish, because there was that one person in the boat
who somehow managed to constantly get into my frame, which took the focus out,
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After a
while watching these two, we set off in search of others. We stopped briefly at
a rock that had seals hauled out on it, and again to check out a bald eagle,
but the destination was a nearby cove where a mum and cub had been spotted by
one of the other boats. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">However, by the time we got there, they had gone,
probably due to the appearance of a big male bear, just along the beach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Male bears
have a tendency to kill cubs, as the mothers won’t mate all the while they are
looking after an infant, so when mum reappeared, she was on her own, probably
having left her cub safely up a tree somewhere close by.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We watched
these two for a while, and then, as we were getting close to the end of our
time, set off to see if there were any others around elsewhere. We hadn’t yet
found any more, when we heard that the cub had been seen again. Unfortunately,
though we got there quickly, we arrived just in time to see them disappear into
the woods. Clearly this wasn’t our day for seeing more than a fleeting glimpse
of a cub.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But then, we
had just started to drive away from the shore, cameras all being put safely
into their cases to keep them dry, when, out of the corner of my eye, I spotted
movement from the treeline. The mum and cub were back. I told our guide, and he
quickly turned us back around, and then slowly, so as not to scare them off
again, we edged closer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Third time
lucky; we got to see the cub properly. The male was now far enough away that
mum was content to bring the cub down to the shore to search for food with her.
We got to spend a while with them before it really was time to go back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So, all
together we saw seven bears, which we were pretty happy with, especially having
finally seen that cute little cub.</span></div>
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<br />Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Tofino, BC, Canada49.1529842 -125.9066184000000149.0698612 -126.06797990000001 49.2361072 -125.74525690000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-86833865398152915552017-09-10T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-10T12:00:07.995+01:00Tofino and Ucluelet <br />
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first in Victoria, and indeed ever since, we have had people extolling the
virtues of Tofino to us, so we figured we had to come and see for ourselves
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In retrospect, I’m not sure we really gave
ourselves enough time here, as we didn’t have long enough to fully explore the rainforest
trails and beaches that people like so much, but then if we had stayed longer,
we would undoubtedly have eaten even more bad things than we did, so perhaps
that’s for the best.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The town is quite
tiny, with the main centre being basically just four blocks in each direction,
and a few roads leading out. The resident population is about 2,000, but in
summer, they are way outnumbered by the arrival of around 20,000 visitors at
peak times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Surprisingly, the town doesn’t feel all that crowded most of the
time. It helps that people don’t really come here to spend time in town, they
come to walk the trails, swim and surf, so most of the time they aren’t
clogging the place up. The restaurants, and one or two pubs can get busy in the
evenings though; it’s best to make reservations at the most popular ones if you
want to avoid a long wait for a table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The town is
very much a resort, with lots of gift shops, tour operators and surf shacks,
but it feels remarkably laid back and not tacky. Mind you, we certainly
experienced a sample of that less pleasant side of a ‘small town’ mindset with
one man that we met in his shop. We were talking, and he asked us where we were
going to eat. When we said we were going to Wolf in the Fog – a place that gets
excellent reviews, he railed against it quite vehemently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It was one
of those tirades that had little to no facts or justifications involved, just a
lot of very negative opinions. We were already mentally dismissing him as
having some kind of grudge, just based on his attitude, when he confirmed our
suspicions by complaining about how the owner was a newcomer who wanted to open
later at night, and how he didn’t want those people walking back past his house
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We went to
the restaurant regardless, and thought the food was excellent, and more
interesting than most. Nic especially enjoyed his octopus and pork cheek main
course. We also went to SOBO, which did have the ranting man’s seal of
approval, but while we enjoyed it, we thought Wolf in the Fog was better, and
it had the better wines too. One place that we did resist trying, but we heard
very good comments about from our fellow hostellers, was Big Daddy’s Fish Fry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We’re not
beachy people, but we felt that being in Tofino, we should at least make it to
one, so we wandered up to the closest one, Tonquin Beach. It’s only small,
reached via a short walk through the woods, but it is lovely. The woods come
right down to a pretty little sandy cove, and there are rocky outcrops at
either end. These were the best bit for us, as although the tide was coming in,
we just about had enough time to poke about amongst them and check out the
multitude of life clinging onto the rocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Barnacles
were the main inhabitants, but there were other molluscs and a number of sea
anemones too. We rather enjoyed peering at them, even though we did have to be
wary of getting wet feet from a stray big wave coming in, or from our trainers
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day, we drove over to nearby Ucluelet, for lunch and a walk around the Wild
Pacific Trail. We took the Lighthouse Loop, a 2.6km walk around part of the
headland. We had hoped that we might just spot a bit of wildlife in the water,
watching out in particular, for the elusive sea otter, perhaps snacking on its
favourite sea urchin, but alas there was none to be seen.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot the deer to the left of the white ramp, Ucluelet</td></tr>
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though, this was a nice little walk, and while we were always either passing
people or being passed ourselves, it didn’t feel crowded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We did spot
one bit of wildlife that day though, a deer wandering around one of the
properties in town.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tonquin Beach, Tofino</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tonquin Beach, Tofino</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sea anemone, Tonquin Beach, Tofino</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skunk Cabbage, which the bears use as a laxative when they wake up from hibernation, Wild Pacific Trail, Ucluelet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wild Pacific Trail, Ucluelet</td></tr>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Tofino, BC, Canada49.1529842 -125.9066184000000149.0698612 -126.06797990000001 49.2361072 -125.74525690000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-40166045884427803442017-09-09T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-09T12:00:05.871+01:00The tall trees of Cathedral Grove<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">From
Nanaimo, we drove from the east of the island, over to the west, to Tofino. It
was on the way out of town that we stopped off to collect our bacon covered
Nanaimo bars, and we then had a tortuous wait of over thirty minutes before we
could eat them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We were
making a stop off in Cathedral Grove, a forest of Douglas Fir Trees, which had
been recommended to us by pretty much everyone we spoke to. We managed to find a spot to park in, and paused there for a while to eat our Nanaimo bars, before heading off into the forest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We could see why it
is popular. There are walks on either side of the road, but as we had a
reasonable drive ahead of us, we just did the one, which included tallest tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The walk,
even at strolling pace and stopping for photos, only took about half an hour,
so it is easy to fit in, but if you are really strapped for time, (or really
lazy,) there is a short route past the tallest tree. That one is over 800 years
old, and stand at 76 metres tall, with a 9 metre circumference around the base.
To give you a perspective on its height, they make the comparison with the
Leaning Tower of Pisa, which is a mere 56 metres. I just got Nic to stand at
the bottom.</span></div>
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pleasant way to spend a little while, and despite the number of cars parked, it
doesn’t even feel too crowded. I’m not quite sure where all of the occupants of the cars were,
in fact.</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0MacMillan Provincial Park, Nanaimo F, BC V0R, Canada49.2876098 -124.6664870000000223.7655753 -165.97508100000002 74.8096443 -83.357893000000018tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-64153837521988536552017-09-07T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-07T12:00:14.614+01:00Duncan<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Our other
trip out of Nanaimo was to Duncan, which we had read about, and also had
recommended to us by a local couple who we met when we were in Puerto Varas in
Chile earlier in the year. They are still on their travels too, so no catch ups
today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">With an area
of less than the old City of London, and a population of under 5,000, Duncan is
the smallest city in BC, but it does service the much larger (around 80,000)
outlying population. Like much of BC the city has roots in the lumber industry,
but it also sits in the fertile Cowichan Valley, so there is an abundance of
farming and nowadays, wineries too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Of course,
with our diets seemingly in freefall, and being already full of Nanaimo bars,
we had to resist the temptation to check out all of the local wines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Duncan is a
pleasant place. The original settlement here was called Alderlea, and was just farmland,
owned by William Chalmers Duncan. In 1887, he donated a section of the land for
the town to be created, and that was the beginning of Duncan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The city has
a number of ‘heritage buildings’, that are probably quite interesting for
visiting Canadians or others from newer countries, but which we find difficult to
get excited about when they are only a hundred or so years old. That isn’t
meaning to be dismissive, but just a reflection of a difference in perspective.
As someone said to us recently Canadians are impressed by things that have even
a relatively moderate age, that feel new and inconsequential to Europeans, but
Europeans are put off by distances that Canadians wouldn’t give a second
thought to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">What we did
notice here, is that there was a better quality in the First Nations style
souvenirs available than we have seen generally. And that brings me nicely to
the reason that most tourists come to Duncan – the totem poles and Quw’utson Cultural
Centre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Unfortunately,
the cultural centre was closed on the day we visited, but we did get to see the
largest hockey stick in the world. It was made for the 1986 Vancouver Expo, as
part of a collection of large items celebrating aspects of the Canadian
lifestyle, and bought by the city afterwards. Later in our trip, we would pass
through Houston on the train, which is home to another of these items, the
world’s largest fly fishing rod.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">But enough
of inexplicably large paraphanalia, and back to what the city is really known
for - the totem poles. The City of Totems Project was begun by the then Mayor,
Douglas Barker in 1985, as a way to attract new visitors. They commissioned
numerous poles from recognised First Nations artists, and raised them around
the main streets. This is now the world’s largest collection of publicly
displayed totem poles, and in 2012, as part of their celebrations of the centenary
of becoming a city, they created a trail that you can follow to see them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I have
chosen a number of the poles that we found more interesting for the photos, and
whilst I won’t tell you any of the stories that go with them – you can read
about those yourself if you visit one day – I have included details of what
they depict, so you can make them out more easily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Wind Spirit, carved by Doug LaFortune in 1986, and the
first one that he made for the collection. It shows a Thunderbird, a Wind
Spirit, a bear and a halibut.</span><br />
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LaFortune in 1987, showin</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">g
a bald eagle, a killer whale and Spirit Helpers; Raven’s Gift, carved by
Doug LaFortune in 1989, showing a raven, a totem pole, a man and a beaver; and
Pole of Wealth, carved by Hwunu’metse’(Simon Charlie) in 1988, showing a
Thunderbird, a Spirit, a killer whale, a black bear and a copper.</span></div>
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Man Walking Out of The Log, carved by Gwe-la-y-gwe-la-gya-les in 1988, showing
a man holding a walking stick that itself is carved with a copper and family
crests of a baby Thunderbird, a killer whale and a man. This is the world’s
widest totem pole with a diameter of 1.8 metres. The cedar tree that it is
carved from is over 750 years old and has marks in the back where you can see
that planks were once taken out to make First Nations homes.</span></div>
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other areas of Canada, British Columbia retains quite a lot of its First
Nations Heritage, and of course we wanted to find out a bit more about the
people and take a look at one of the most iconic aspects of their culture, the
totem pole. As we will be seeing a bit about this over the coming posts, I
thought I’d drop in a quick background post, to help make sense of the posts to
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think of Canada as a relatively new country, and that is true in terms of the
white European settlement here. But of course, like so many countries that we
British and other Europeans decided to claim as our own, there were already
people living here when we arrived. The First Nations people are believed to
have settled here at least 12,000 years ago, but it could have been longer ago
than that. They lived in numerous tribal communities, with those in this
British Columbia area known generically as the Pacific Coastal group.</span></div>
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Nations people did not have a written language, and totem poles form an important
part of their culture, history and storytelling. They are all made of cedar
wood, but can vary considerably, depending on the tribe, the carver, the wealth
and status of the family, and the purpose of the pole.</span></div>
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three different types of pole. The first is a house pole. This was placed
outside the home, and was decorated with family crest at the top, followed by
other crests or symbols that are meaningful about the owner. A post could only
show the crests that the owner was entitled to use, be that the symbol of their
own tribe, or a crest that had been gifted to them through friendship, trade or
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pole therefore shows the story of the family, and can be viewed as a kind of
address, as if you were visiting, you could look at a pole, and see information
about the person that lived there and whether or not you would receive a warm
welcome.</span></div>
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pole was often taken by settlers and tourists, so is often found in museums
around the world.</span></div>
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type is the memorial pole. These would predominantly have been put up by the Chief,
and would have been created to commemorate a special event, and the carvings
would represent the event that had occurred. These poles would also have had
rings carved around it to record the potlatches that had been hosted by the
Chief, as these were a symbol of his generosity and therefore his importance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The third
type is a mortuary pole. The First Nations people did not bury their dead. The
bodies of those of a lower standing would be placed in a tree or cave to
decompose, and allow their spirit to rise, and then their bones would be placed
in a mortuary house behind the home. However, those of sufficient importance or
wealth, would have their body put into a bentwood box, which would be placed on
top of a mortuary pole, which would have carvings that represented the
individual who had passed away.</span></div>
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Nations people generally believe that these posts should not be maintained, as
when they fall, it is because the spirit of the person is now free, so the
posts are left and allowed to gradually decay where they drop. It is these
posts that are most likely to be the type that can still be found in old
villages, as they were less likely to be removed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">While the
carvings on totems are very symbolic, there is surprisingly little information
about what they mean. Because the symbolism was personal to the owner, and the
storytelling and nuances were created by the carver, each is very individual,
and so similar images may in fact represent quite different meanings. Some of
the stories of the totem would have been ‘told’ through dances and storytelling
at the potlatch that would have been held to celebrate and witness the raising
of the pole. I’ll talk more about potlatches in another post.</span></div>
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the totems may have been passed down through families, but they often get
distorted, intentionally or otherwise, and when the colonial governments banned
the language and the traditions of the First Nations people, much of their
history, culture and stories were lost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The crests
and images are often steeped in supernatural beliefs, like the belief that many
ancestors had the ability to change between human form and that of a particular
animal or bird. Some of the beings were in themselves supernatural too, such as
the Thunderbird, that controls the upper world and came down from the sky, took
off its bird regalia, and became human, or the Dzunuk’wa, a wild woman, who
smelled bad and was wicked, but a little stupid. She would capture children,
but they would usually be able to escape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Popular
tribal crests include both these beings, plus more familiar creatures such as
the eagle, raven, grizzly bear, killer whale and mountain goat. Some images are
pretty recognisable, others might require a little imagination, or simply a bit
of knowledge, like the fact that the depictions of the eagle and raven may look
similar, (especially when the post is old and worn,) but the raven will always
have a straight beak, while the tip of the eagle’s will be hooked over. The
Thunderbird’s upper beak often will curve right under it’s lower beak . </span></div>
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a quick introduction to some aspects of a totem pole, which I hope will be
useful as we carry on our trip around British Columbia.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0British Columbia, Canada53.7266683 -127.6476205000000234.3925838 -168.95621450000002 73.0607528 -86.339026500000017tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-78809313493829285052017-09-05T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-05T12:00:17.223+01:00The ‘World Famous’ Murals of Chemainus<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Having got our hire car in Nanaimo, we could take a trip out to a couple of nearby towns, and the first of these was Chemainus. Like a number of towns in this area of British Colombia, Chemainus was built on the forestry industry, and from its beginnings in 1858, right up until the 1970s, this was fine. However, with such industries becoming increasingly fragile, the residents realised that their reliance on forestry alone was precarious, and decided to branch out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The town already attracted some tourists, because it offers an old town style in a nice coastal setting, so they decided to encourage more visitors with an ‘open-air art gallery’ of murals depicting the town’s history. They had the first murals completed by the summer of 1982, and there are now forty-two, plus some extra artworks and they have created a new theatre festival too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I’m not at all sure about the claim that these are ‘world famous’ murals – I certainly had never heard of them before – and they aren’t something that I’d travel great distances to see, but if you are in the neighbourhood then they ae probably worth a quick detour. You can pick up a leaflet at the visitors’ centre which has a map and description of each mural; it costs $3, but the money goes back in to the creation and maintenance of the murals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Typically, we somehow missed one of the murals that I particularly wanted to mention, so I have used the picture from the leaflet. This is mural number 10, The Company Store, and I have included it because they claim that it shows one of the first-known credit card systems. The company in question was The Victoria Lumber & Manufacturing Company, and apparently the employees would make purchases from the store using coupons, the store would get the money directly from the Company, and they in turn would deduct the payment directly from the employee’s pay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I’ve picked out a few more of my favourites to show you.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk489929747"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial";">Mural number </span></a><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial";">35.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> First Chemainus Sawmill 1862 – I had to include this one, as this first, water-powered sawmill, built just four years after the first arrivals, represents how the town really got started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Mural number 6. Arrival of The Reindeer in Horseshoe Bay – This is a simple painting of a First Nations woman calmly watching HMS Reindeer arrive on one of its visits. The description refers to her contemplating the arrival, but of course, knowing how badly the British Empire treated the First Nations people, one has to wonder whether her thoughts would really have been rather less friendly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Mural number 1. Steam Donkey at Work – I liked this because it isn’t often that you see something like a steam donkey, which was used to haul in a log from the forest, over all sorts of rough terrain and natural obstacles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Mural number 37. Star Novelty Works – This is an old town scene from around the end of the 19</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial";"> century, showing The Star Novelty Works bicycle shop.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7NFz5j-QMBEtQjHz5zZOVR6e3SG3Bpnu8SXjPHAUQTDDKmUKZzqnY-rBviIJBlORYViGhmmEF3fhXNYTrSezU22GTMNpL1D5Dp2qO824HTJCKOpwSNE0j3b7nVM5Zn34vMnfXgedjBeM/s1600/P7243143.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7NFz5j-QMBEtQjHz5zZOVR6e3SG3Bpnu8SXjPHAUQTDDKmUKZzqnY-rBviIJBlORYViGhmmEF3fhXNYTrSezU22GTMNpL1D5Dp2qO824HTJCKOpwSNE0j3b7nVM5Zn34vMnfXgedjBeM/s400/P7243143.JPG" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">Murals number 26. and 34. Chemainus, The War Years, Circa 1915 and Letters From the Front – These two both give us scenes from the First Word War, with the former showing soldiers of the 67</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Battalion waiting at Chemainus Station for the train that would begin their journey to a war from which many would never return. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The second, which is on the post office building, commemorates how letters would keep families in touch during the war years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Mural number 30. The Lone Scout – This mural shows Edward Shige Yoshida, who in 1929, started the 2</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">nd</span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Chemainus Boy Scouts Group, which was the first all Japanese group in Canada. Of course, this was only necessary because he had been barred from joining the existing group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Mural number 29. The Winning Float – On 30 June 1939, The Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company celebrated its Golden Jubilee with a parade, and this was the winning float. It was chosen as a mural because, as well as referencing the anniversary of The Company, it also represents the strong Japanese influence on the town. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Mural number 39. Skating on Fuller Lake – Unlike some parts of Canada, the winters here on Vancouver Island are comparatively mild, but this shows a time when they were colder, and Fuller Lake froze over, allowing the locals to skate and play hockey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Back in
Nanaimo, we discovered that we had arrived in time for the annual Bathtub Race.
The race was launched in 1957, and in honour of his part in making it happen,
the then Mayor, Frank Ney, was dubbed ‘Black Frank’ and there is a statue in
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As this year marks the 50</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial;">
anniversary, and 51</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Bathtub Race, the annual race weekend firework
show was given a little bit extra whizz and bang. We watched them from the
comfort of the first floor terrace at our Airbnb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now on
hearing about the Bathtub Races, we had visions of people paddling (and
probably sinking) decorated bathtubs, or possibly a land version, with people
running, either carrying someone in a bathtub, or maybe Flintstones style, with
their feet sticking through holes cut out of the bottom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In fact,
neither was true. Bathtub racing, Nanaimo style, is a serious business. The
competitor does indeed sit in a bathtub, but it is housed in a kind of mini speedboat,
and this is no jaunt in the harbour. The route is 58km (36 mile) out on the
open sea, and as it turned out this year, it can get pretty rough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Last year,
the winner made it back in a record time of just over 1 hour and 7 minutes.
This year, it took somewhat longer, if they made it back at all. Of the 33 tubs
that started, only about six made it past the second of four checkpoints. Over
two hours in, and it wasn’t at all clear that anyone would make it all the way
around the course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When one guy
motored his damaged tub back to the finish line, we all cheered him in even
though we knew he was out, just because it was looking like it might be the
only tub we’d see arrive. Another guy got a big cheer as he used his hands to
paddle the last bit of the way in, even though he was already out and had been towed
most of the way back. And all the while, we were getting updates about the
latest tub that had retired from the race.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But just as
we were all giving up hope, we got the news that there was one that had managed
to beat the waves, and was on its way in. The winner, Brandon Leigh in number
555, pulled in to shore with his tub, clambered out, and tottered on jelly legs
up the beach, up a rather mean ramp, and rang the finishing bell with a time of
2 hours 24 minutes and 6 seconds.</span></div>
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Shawn Nadeau in number 789, come home, but had to head off after that, as
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We later discovered that five tubs made it back, with third place
Kurt Henderson coming in in 3 hours and five minutes, fourth place Tyler Lucente ten minutes after that, and
the fifth place Kyle Boyd finally making it home after an incredible 5 hours, 7
minutes and 20 seconds. You’ve got to admire his determination to keep going!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A non-finisher, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A non-finisher, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A tub makes it back, but it's a non-finisher, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A non-finisher, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A non-finisher paddles back, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally, the winner, Brandon Leigh, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally, the winner, Brandon Leigh, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally, the winner, Brandon Leigh, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally, the winner, Brandon Leigh, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally, the winner, Brandon Leigh, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally, the winner, Brandon Leigh, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally, the winner, Brandon Leigh, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second place finisher, Shawn Nadeau, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second place finisher, Shawn Nadeau, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second place finisher, Shawn Nadeau, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second place finisher, Shawn Nadeau, Bathtub Race 2017, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bathtub Race 2017 fireworks</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bathtub Race 2017 fireworks</td></tr>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Nanaimo, BC, Canada49.1658836 -123.9400648000000248.9998026 -124.26278830000001 49.3319646 -123.61734130000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-5892560886342626102017-09-02T12:00:00.000+01:002017-09-02T12:00:20.168+01:00Sweet Treats in Nanaimo<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bastion, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I mentioned
already that when we were in Victoria last time, we discovered the joys of the
Nanaimo Bar. This is basically a layer of chocolatey, coconutty, biscuit base,
then a thick layer that is something between a mousse and a set custard, all
topped with a thick chocolate layer. The middle layer is often in a variety of
flavours, and our favourites in Victoria were mint for me and peanut butter for
Nic. They are rich, messy to eat, and the best ones are delicious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">They
originate, logically enough, in Nanaimo, a town further up the east coast, so
naturally, we had promised ourselves a trip there the next time, so that we
could investigate – by which I mean sample – more of these sweet treats. Of
course, that was all before we had decided to do this fitness kick, but a
promise is a promise, and we were doing well with our diet at the time we were
planning this, so figured we could afford to give ourselves this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If we’d have
known then how badly we would stall on the weight loss in Victoria, we might
have given Nanaimo a miss, but as it was, we got a bus here from Victoria, and
settled in to enjoy fewer than we would have done in our old ways, (we did at
least resist the deep-fried version,) but more than was truly sensible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And the
verdict from the Green jury, was that the first and last were the best. Top
place went to our first bar, from Bocca Cafe, where the peanut butter and
salted caramel versions were god, but the simple original flavour was
excellent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Second place was not actually in Nanaimo, but just outside town, in
Smoky Joe’s BBQ steakhouse. Their maple syrup one has little bits of bacon
added to the chocolate on top, and everyone knows that bacon makes pretty much
anything tastier, but it loses top position for being maybe just a bit too rich.
Half a bar would probably have been enough really, but we valiantly battled
through.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9/11 wreckage, Nanaimo</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aside from
its namesake chocolate bars, Nanaimo doesn’t honestly have a whole lot of
attractions. It’s on the coast, which is nice, and it has a bastion, which
dates from 1853, and was part of the old Hudson’s Bay Company fort. We didn’t
go inside, but apparently there are exhibitions on the trading company, the armaments,
and some of the belongings that the colonists would have brought over with
them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One imported
item that we hadn’t expected to see in Nanaimo, was a piece of the World Trade
Centre wreckage from 9/11. It seems that the local Fire Brigade wrote and
requested a piece, and now have it outside their Station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There are a
few interesting shops, and a couple of decent places to go out, in particular,
The Vault, which has reasonable food and great live music. We saw two bands
there, and especially enjoyed one called Fever Feel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We also did
a couple of day trips out, most of which I’ll cover in separate posts, but
which included a visit to nearby Coombs, which I’m fairly sure Nic included
purely to see a place called Goats on the Roof which, you’ve guessed it, has
goats grazing on its grass covered rooftop. He maintains that it was also to
see the Old Country Market, but as that wasn’t overly exciting, I suspect it
was all about the goats.</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Nanaimo, BC, Canada49.1658836 -123.9400648000000248.9998026 -124.26278830000001 49.3319646 -123.61734130000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-28085971348054280592017-08-31T12:00:00.000+01:002017-08-31T22:28:21.095+01:00The rest of Victoria<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span>
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best intentions for our four weeks in Victoria, we found ourselves struggling
with keeping to our diet. It wasn’t that we were being terribly bad – most of
our meals were still strictly by the rules – but we found ourselves wanting
those little extras, especially if we went out. Like the time we went to
Fisherman’s Wharf, and ended up having fish and chips.</span></div>
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couple of times that we went out to eat, and whilst we picked fairly well-behaved
things, there was just that added temptation to have some yam fries, or for Nic
to have a naughty sauce on his pasta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And then
there was the fact that the weather was glorious the whole time we were there,
so one day we gave in to having an ice cream, and another we succumbed to
sitting in a pub garden with a bottle of wine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was still all incredibly
well behaved compared with our old way of life, but it was still too many bad
things to achieve the weight loss we were aiming for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One thing
that we knew that we weren’t even planning to try to resist, was our favourite
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’ll talk more about these in a later post, but for now, a Nanaimo
bar is a very tasty, but very naughty cake, and when we were here last time, we
discovered them in a bakery that was on our route home, so we’d often pop in to
grab one – peanut butter for Nic and mint for me.</span></div>
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we headed up to the bakery, ready to get our treat, only to discover that the
location was now a building site. I think Nic may actually have let out a small
howl of disappointment! Not to be deterred though, I figured that as this was a
pretty popular bakery, there was a reasonable chance that it may have
relocated, and luckily, this was right, and we managed to find it just a little
further along from its old spot. They didn’t have any mint ones though, so I
resisted any alternatives on this occasion, but Nic got his peanut butter one,
and was very happy. </span></div>
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that, we pootled about a bit. We looked
in on some of the live music for the jazz festival including going along to a
show one night. That was OK, albeit nothing spectacular. We checked out the
Canada day celebrations, which despite this being a big deal because it is the
150</span><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> anniversary of the confederation of Canada, were a bit
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We also took
the bus out to Estevan</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Avenue</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">one day. We got off in </span><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oak Bay Avenue</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, and walked the rest of the way up, so by
the time we got there we felt virtuous enough to allow ourselves a few extra
syns with our reasonably healthy lunch at The Village. Then we wandered along to the beach and
back, and gave in to having a tiny cupcake. Feeling a bit guilty about that, we
decided to make up for it by walking all the way back, which took about </span><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">an hour</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. That</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> got</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the steps up on the Fitbits!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I'm not sure that Estevan Avenue is really worth a trip on its own, but it could certainly be done in conjunction with the Oak Bay area for a good day out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So overall,
Victoria was a pleasant place to have spent four weeks in the sunshine, but it
ended up being a bit of a “neither/nor” place. We didn’t go completely mad, and
revert to our old ways of eating and drinking whatever we liked, but neither
had we managed to stick strictly to our regime. In the end, we lost some weight
while we were here, but not as much as we should have done, especially when we
knew what was coming up next….</span></div>
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brief sojourn back in the UK, we were soon heading off again, this time to
Canada. We had a flight from Heathrow at a sensible time, so we didn’t have to
be getting up at silly o’clock to get there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mind you, it did cause a bit of
confusion, as for some reason, when Nic booked our accommodation, he had got it
in his head that we were on an overnight flight, so our hotel near the airport
was booked for the night after we arrived in Vancouver, and our Airbnb in
Victoria was booked from the night after that. Thankfully, he realised this
shortly before we left, and was able to change the hotel date for Vancouver,
and booked us into a hostel for our first night in Victoria on the Friday.</span></div>
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safely in Canada, and had a nice easy bus – ferry – bus journey over to
Vancouver Island the next day. We had booked a nice little Airbnb flat in
Chinatown, and we soon got ourselves signed up to the local gym and even to a
yoga studio, where we cold drop in for whatever classes we wanted. Within a few
days, we had filled our fridge with healthy and diet friendly foods, and so we
were all set for the next stint in our weight loss campaign. Little did we know
then, that things weren’t going to go quite to plan, but we’ll come to that
later.</span></div>
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really have any great plans for Victoria, as we’d done most of the touristy
bits that we were interested in last time around. In any case, we were going to
the gym most days, and all that buying, chopping and cooking of vegetables
seemed to take up an inordinately large amount of our time. I seriously wonder
how we ever found time to go to work – but then I guess that’s why we had ended
up always eating quick, unhealthy meals and going out for dinner so often.</span></div>
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have planned, was a day out on Sunday with Jen and Gav, a British couple that
we had met in our hostel in Puerto Varas, Chile, earlier in the year. It had
worked out nicely that we had been able to coincide our time so that we could
meet up again here. Mind you, we were missing the real superstar of this family, as Ruby The Landy, whose adventures are being written about in the Land Rover magazine The Landy, was still boxed up in a crate her way here from Santiago.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">With no Ruby, Jen and Gav had hired a much less colourful vehicle, and
so Gav drove us all out to Port Renfrew. It took a bit longer that we’d
thought, so we ended up just having lunch there and wandering along the pier
for a bit, before we needed to drive back again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a
pleasant place to visit though, and we rather enjoyed watching the seals in the
little harbour; they were quite happily taking advantage of the remnants of the
fish that were discarded into the water after the fishermen had finished
filleting them on the dock.</span><br />
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had a problem on the way back, as we needed to fill up with fuel, but there
weren’t exactly a lot of petrol stations around. We spotted a sign for gas, and
followed it to what seemed to be a dry dock and RV park. We were a little
doubtful, but sure enough, we found a huge vat of fuel, and someone willing to
sell it. It was then we realised that we were lucky that we had left when we
did, and they were due to close at 5pm, which was only five minutes away. Phew!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was great
to catch up with the two of them again, and while we didn’t do anything very
adventurous, we certainly talked a lot.</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0Port Renfrew, BC V0S, Canada48.552966 -124.4222990000000123.030931499999998 -165.730893 74.0750005 -83.11370500000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260435325813613574.post-91462547654926482772017-08-29T12:00:00.000+01:002017-08-29T12:00:09.894+01:00Quick change in the UK ...<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under the Wave off Kanagawa (pic from Wikipedia)</td></tr>
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After our five months in South America, we did a quick return to the UK. We only had a couple of weeks, so it was a bit of a flying visit to family and a quick stay in London, but we managed to get done what we needed to.<br />
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That included a bit of shopping for new clothes in smaller sizes, in particular, gym and running gear, that we would be taking to Canada.<br />
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Despite the expected slowdown in Argentina, During our time in South America, I had managed to lose 2 stone 13 pounds (which for non-UK people is 41 pounds or 19kg) and Nic had done even better at 4 stone (56 pounds or 25kg).<br />
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So while I still have a long way to go to get to my target, I was still pretty pleased, and there was a noticeable difference. Nic had of course got much closer to his goal already, and the effect was probably best described by the fact that when his mum first saw him, her response was an exclamation of "Oh my God!"<br />
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We didn't fit in too much during the fortnight, but aside from family, a couple of friends, and shopping, we did get in a visit ton the theatre. We had booked tickets for the last night of Don Juan in Soho, staring David Tennant. We thoroughly enjoyed it.<br />
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We also went along to an exhibition at the British Museum. We didn't have time to look around the rest of it, so we'll have to go back again sometime, and this time also take some photos of the impressive inside of the building.<br />
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The exhibition we saw was Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave. It was about the work of Japanese artist, Katsushika Hokusai - though he went by various other names during his lifetime - whose best known work is Under the Wave off Kanagawa, and is of a huge, frothy, blue wave, with Mount Fuji in the background. It is one of those pieces that you may never have heard of, but you would probably recognise.<br />
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It isn't a painting though. It is actually, in my opinion, more remarkable for being a woodblock print. What this means is that Hokusai did the initial drawing, but then a specialist woodcarver had to use it as an outline to create wooden blocks that would then be inked and printed. It is all a highly skilled process, but very effective.<br />
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The exhibition contained many other pieces by this prolific artist, and was well worth going to see. We found his work really interesting and enjoyable, but I'm afraid I still like the classic The Great Wave, the best.Tabithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06308253307544437119noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5073509 -0.1277582999999822351.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777