burnt embers

As I explained in my first Haida Gwaii post, the trip included brief layovers in Charlotte located on the south shore of Graham Island. One stop was to allow us to get gear and supplies together for the trip to Kilgii Gwaay; the other was on my way home waiting for the flight out and running some errands around town to help close off the first phase of the project. This post takes us back to Charlotte. I hope to get one more post about the Kilgii Gwaay archaeological project at a later date, but I am not sure when that will be possible.

Those of us leaving the project (Dale and I), or going out on a rest break (Goox and Gwaliga), flew from the site in a float plane, leaving behind the project leaders who stayed in Gwaii Haanas for 6 weeks without a break. I expect they are pretty worn out by now – they are just arriving back in town as I wrap up this series. Hard to believe I squeezed a whole month of posts out of this trip, but I did!

On the plane to Queen B’s

If you want to see a gallery of the views from the float plane up the east coast of Gwaii Haanas, they can be found on the Quimper Hitty blog here.

One of the best things about Charlotte is Queen B’s. It is a coffee-house and café, typically funky for the area, and serving excellent coffee and food. It is a destination and I was glad to have a couple of hours to myself at breakfast time one day. There was a display of glass mobiles by (local?) artist Tom Kile along one wall. I wonder if the colour scheme is deliberately unlike the nearly ubiquitous green outdoors.

Interior, front door

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Waffles are not field food, so I had waffles. With fruit. And whipped cream. Excellent! And a decaf-Americano which was also wonderful. If you go to Charlotte, stop off at Queen B’s.

My waffles and coffee on vintage furniture

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Canon 5Dii, Canon 50mm/f1.4, ISO 200 outdoors, ISO 1250 indoors, all shot at f2.5 (why did I do that??) at various shutter speeds. Nikkor-N 24mm/f2.8 lens for float plane, ISO1250.

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