Monday, June 11, 2012

After an enjoyable breakfast we headed out on a bear hunting trip. Unfortunately the only wildlife we saw was a squirrel and an eagle.  We did however see some nice country and a very big logging mill operation.  

The logging industry is very active up on this end of the island.  The pictures are of a major operation that starts with the logs arriving at the mill on train cars where they are off loaded onto the ground, sorted, and then dumped into the sound where small tug boats would move the logs around until they were in large groups and then floated north towards Port McNeil where there is a large plant for cellulose.

The train engine is just a remembrance of the past gone by during the boom time.

That is a davenport that is submerged in a roadside pond.

A beautiful river adjacent to a campground. in the back country

On the road during our bear hunting trip.

An eagle in the tree top just above their nest.

Today we also enjoyed a visit to Telegraph Cove which was an early location of a telegraph station used during the war.   In WWII the telegraph was valuable to the war efforts as well as being the location for internment of the local Japanese civilians. Today the buildings have been restored and are being used for tourist accommodations.  In addition there is a good whale museum which contains many skeletons of various types of whales and marine life.


Tomorrow morning we head out to get on the ferry going over to Bella Coola.  The trip takes 18 hours arriving at 6:00 am on Wednesday. I doubt if they will have any WiFi on board so we will try to send out a report Wednesday evening when we arrive in Anahim Lake.


Good Night


Roger and Shirl