Since Blind channel we have come up the Johnston Strait, stopping off in Port Harvey to avoid a NW gale... We set the prawn and crab traps and manged to catch one large prawn, which I cooked coming down the inlet, and a huge starfish took a fancy to our crab trap!
There are quite a few float homes in Port Harvey... this one caught our eye, it's not often we come across someone listing more to port than ourselves!!
We've been in Port McNeill for the past four days, sorting out a generator problem and sourcing electronic charts for the Queen Charlottes, which we discovered (to our horror, only once we had arrived in Port McNeil!) are not in the West Coast chart package we have. The boys have been busy watching the log loading operation near the dock, playing in the local park and we even took a trip to the local swimming pool.
Conor has discovered the BLT, and has had several during our stay here.
Here they are, close to the park beside the world's largest burl... 24 tonnes apparently!!
We plan to head out early in the morning across Queen Charlotte strait... We won't have internet access again until Queen Charlotte City in a few weeks, but we'll try and get some updates done over the radio.
1 comment:
From a WiKi:
"A burl results from a tree undergoing some form of stress. It may be environmental or introduced by humans."
woow must have been a lot of stress!
victor
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