Hot Springs cove, located in Maquinna Provincial Park, is small and narrow. Halfway up is a public dock that leads to a boardwalk trail two kilometers to the hot springs. On the trail are large twisted cedars and lush vegetation. Yellow lily like flowers called skunk cabbage, a sign of spring, grew abundantly on the […]
Author: Jordan
One of the reporters on the dock in Vancouver, BC ask something akin to what I was most looking forward to on this trip. I told her it would be some point, which I predicted would be after Port Hardy, where the distance from shore, or in this case normal life and civilization would ebb […]
Saturday, April 21, Midday Adam watched the fishing rod bend slightly. He was in the bow seat and called for Markus to reel it in from the stern where he was preparing food. Whatever was on the end was not a fighter. As the molted brown fish that Adam called rock cod came […]
Earth Day’s reward was not miles rowed. Rick and Adam were rowing when thirty foot plumes of steam appeared from the sea with an industrial hiss. Huge coal-colored bodies rolled softly past us–five to eight humpbacks. The water was smooth and glassy. We quit rowing and watched off and on for the better part of […]
Left Port Hardy Friday morning. Good weather. The boat, now with five crew members, bustled with activity, anticipation and humor. As we crossed Goletas Channel the first of the ocean swells lifted our little hull. Besides the constant cooking of meals the trip to Bull Harbor on Hope Island was uneventful.