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Searching for Pictographs (Dinghy Anthropology)
We admit it, we like to make fun of the way several Europeans we know carry out anthropological investigations. (No names will be mentioned.) They seem to believe that they are immersing themselves in the history of First Nations’ cultures … Continue reading
Posted in 2012
Tagged anthropology, Berry Island, Kwakwaka'wakw artifacts, pictograph, the Broughton Islands
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“Islands in front” (Memqumlis) or Mamalilaculla
30 June 2012 Our visit to the relics at Mamalilaculla, on Village Island, was preceded by many stories about the abandoned village, once the main winter community for the Mamaleleqala-qweqwa sot’enox people, a branch of the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation. Abandoned … Continue reading
Posted in 2012
Tagged bears, Indian Act, Kwakwaka'wakw artifacts, Mamalilaculla, potlatch, ruins, the Broughtons, Village Island
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Potts Lagoon
28-30 June 2012 Potts Lagoon is a still surviving although not exactly thriving float home community anchored in a narrow cove on West Cracroft Island near the outlet of a lagoon. Named after Murray Clarke Potts, an Ontario student of … Continue reading
Posted in 2012
Tagged bears, berries, birds, Eastern Shore, float homes, hard economic times, Potts Lagoon, the Broughton Islands, the Broughtons
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Forest Products and Fish Food
27 June 2012 (Log) When we woke the world was bathed in a grey wash–pale sky, steely water, grey green hills, granite cliffs. We raised the anchor and slipped out of Forward Harbour and into the Sunderland Channel. We motored … Continue reading
Posted in 2012
Tagged Chatham Channel, clearcuts, fish farms, resource exploitation, the Broughtons
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How to Stop an Eagle from Drowning
1 July 2012 It was Canada Day, and we were convoy sailing with Kalagan, across Knight Inlet, when Rick called us on the radio: “Do you see what I see off to port? I don’t know what we can do … Continue reading
Fishing Lessons I
(June 2012) The entire time that Quoddy’s Run plied the coastal waters of Central America and Mexico, we refused to fish. The skipper did not want fish blood and guts all over the deck, and we all thought it better … Continue reading
Running the Yaculta Rapids North (Our turn)
26 June 2012 Dwelling on a challenge without actually meeting it can make it all the more fearsome. Once we waited for weeks before crossing the Tehuantepec in Mexico, a gulf of justifiably redoubtable reputation for winds, until the prospect … Continue reading
Posted in 2012
Tagged Dent Rapids, Forward Harbour, Galiano, Greene Rapids, Kalagan, Valdes, Whirlpool Rapids, Yaculta Rapids
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Running Rapids North (The Historical Record)
The first published account of the challenging rapids awaiting any sailor or paddler headed north of Desolation Sound appears in an 18th century Spanish document, the English title of which is A Spanish Voyage to Vancouver and the North-West Coast … Continue reading
Posted in 2012
Tagged Cordero, Galiano, Valdes, Vancouver, whirlpools, Yaculta Rapids
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Skinny dipping in Teakerne Arm
24 June 2012 Near the bottom of a deep Cove which obtained the name of Cascade Cove about a mile & a half to the North East of the Ship there was a beautifull Waterfall which issued from a … Continue reading
Life and Death, Flaming Passage
21 June 2012 It was the longest day of the year. We were blessed with sunshine, water warm enough for a swim and the pleasure of a lazy row down the inlet past natural arbutus gardens—the great savour of life. … Continue reading
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