Category Archives: 2012

In Klemtu Anchorage

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Karin Cope

19-20 July 2012, Klemtu Anchorage (Clothes Bay) Marike Muses Anchored in Klemtu Anchorage, a mile south of the public wharves. It rained all afternoon. At 13h00 Zulu, we left No Name. That was morning where we were. Zulu time so … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 | Tagged eagle, fog, humpback whale, Ivory Island Light, Jackson Passage, Klemtu, Klemtu First Nations Cultural Center, Mathieson Channel, Milbanke Sound, National Poetry Writing Month, Oscar Passage, rain, raven, Seaforth Channel, Troup Passage | Leave a comment

Why We Like Outposts

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Karin Cope

17-19 July 2012 Codville Lagoon Marine Park, King Island, Fisher Channel/ Shearwater, Denny Island & Bella Bella (Waglisla), Campbell Island/ Unnamed cove on Cunningham Island, off of Troup Passage We would have liked to stay in Codville Lagoon and hike … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 | Tagged Bella Bella, Central Coast, Dungeness crabs, horseflies, prawns, provisioning, repairs, Shearwater | 1 Comment

Learning to Read the Weather

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Karin Cope

13-17 July 2012 Little Frypan, Penrose Island/ Codville Lagoon, King Island When you arrive on a new coast and listen to the weather forecast, the first challenge is to figure out where the weather reporting stations in your general region … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 | Tagged Bella Bella, Central Coast, Codville Lagoon, Fisher Channel, Fitzhugh Sound, Fury Cove, Little Frypan, Sagar Lake, unpredictable weather, weather, wind | Leave a comment

Rounding Cape Caution to Fury Cove and the Central Coast (Paradise!)

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Karin Cope

8-12 July 2012 Mound Island/Port McNeill/Blunden Harbour/Cape Caution/Fury Cove We met up again with our friends Rick and Dawn on Kalagan at Mound Island, and crossed Blackfish Sound to Port McNeill, near the top edge of Vancouver Island. There, to … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 | Tagged Blunden Harbour, Cape Caution, Central Coast, fog, Fury Cove, Mound Island, Nakwaxda'xw Territory, Port McNeill, rhinoderos auklets, the Broughton Archipelago, whales | 2 Comments

Circumnavigating Gilford Island (Indulging a Longing for Inlets)

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Karin Cope

6 July 2012 Viner Sound/Tribune Channel/Bond Inlet and the Ahta River/Sargeaunt Passage/Knight Inlet/Tsakonu Cove After days of rain and fog, summer suddenly arrived in the Broughton, hot and bright. We stayed moored to the Forest Service buoy in Viner Sound … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 | Tagged Ahta River, bears, Billy Proctor, Bond Inlet, Gilford Island, Knight Inlet, Lacy Falls, rhinoderos auklets, the Broughton Islands, the Broughtons, Tribune Channel, Viner Sound | 6 Comments

Fishing Lessons II (In which we kill a lingcod and learn to fillet it)

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Karin Cope

4 July 2012 Viner Sound, BC We were moored to a Forestry Service buoy in Viner Sound and our provisions were running low. A fresh fish would be lovely, we thought. Our friend Rick, who had persuaded us to come … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 | Tagged Bald Eagle, bears, fishing, Kalagan, lingcod, the Broughton Archipelago, the Broughton Islands, the Broughtons, Viner Sound | Leave a comment

The Sound of Something Vanishing (Billy Procter)

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Karin Cope

2 July 2012 Echo Bay, Gilford Island, BC We were eager to meet Billy Proctor, a lifelong resident of Echo Bay, now in his 70s. Billy had worked as a fisherman, a hand logger, a beachcomber, a salvager, and an … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 | Tagged Alexandra Morton, Bill Williams, Billy Proctor, Billy's Museum, Eastern Shore, Echo Bay, Ramey Munroe, Salmon Coast Field Station, salmon farms, salmon forest, the Broughton Islands, the Broughtons | 3 Comments

Echo Bay

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Karin Cope

When we first began sailing in British Columbia in 2011, we met many people who talked about how damaging and contentious salmon farming was in the province. They talked about how dangerous salmon farms are to the wild salmon fishery—one … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 | Tagged Alexandra Morton, APES, Echo Bay, farmed Atlantic salmon, open pen salmon farms, salmon, Salmon Coast Field Station, salmon farms, salmon feedlots, the Broughton Archipelago, the Broughtons | 4 Comments

Searching for Pictographs (Dinghy Anthropology)

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Karin Cope

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 | 1 Comment

“Islands in front” (Memqumlis) or Mamalilaculla

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Karin Cope

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 | 2 Comments