My 6 days went fast! Wow, we got out and saw so much that Haida Gwaii has to offer but also took it really easy and didn't rush anything. It was a little hard to get used to at first. A couple sleep ins, and hours spent reading in bed changes your perspective quickly. We got up super early so we could squeeze in a few more sites. We stopped in Port Clements to go to the Golden Spruce stump. A little anticlimatic as there isn't really anything to see, but nice to put a sense of place into a piece of BC history. We went for a drive through Old Massett to check out the original native settlement, now a reserve but a pretty nice one. Then it was off to the airport. We said our goodbyes, no tears like when I arrived. What a great trip and so worth rekindling a friendship that may have faded away due to such long distances between us.
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| Across the Yakoun river is the location of the golden spruce, a genetic mutation in a sitka spruce that turned it a yellow golden colour , cut down by one "eco terrorist" nut bar Grant Hadwin in protest of the rape and pillage of the logging industry in BC, and so prominent on Haida Gwaii. The tree of course had deep meaning to the Haida. That dead tree hanging over the river is the rare Golden Spruce. Great book to read by the way. |
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| Don't plant in the red rot! Ha, it grows anywhere around here |
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| The insides of giant Western Red Cedar |
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| Snow capped peaks and glaciers aplenty near Kingcombe Inlet |
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| Thought this was the bay where i was doing a planting boat show from on Sept 11, 2011. Its not. Huge glaciers drain into the ocean here though and it was a spectacular site. |
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| Rossland from the plane from Vancouver |
