Louscoone Mists
While on the Passing Cloud we anchored in Louscoone Inlet a couple of times.
It is a pretty amazing place, right on the edge of the outer Pacific Ocean not far from extremely deep water, with pelagic species venturing in from time to time.
And the forests catch and hold the mist at dawn.
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Colours of Heater Harbour I
This is Heater Harbour at sunset taken from the Passing Cloud.
Light reflections are a joy of spending one’s days on the water.
Heater Harbour is on Kunghit Island just east and south of Rose Harbour in Gwaii Haanas.
Sandhill Crane
In Heater Harbour passengers from the Passing Cloud are led into a bog to see a different kind of Gwaii Haanas environment.
During our visits there were many small toads, probably thousands of them.
And apparently feeding on the toads were Sandhill Cranes.
Our approach disturbed the cranes into flight.
This is a pretty good representation of the glimpses one is allowed of a Sandhill Crane flying through the forest.
But it doesn’t do justice to the sound they make – a positively Jurassic screeching croak which raises the hair on the back of the neck.
Flower Pot Island
Flower Pot Island seen from the Passing Cloud off shore from Titul Island.
In the back ground is the Tangil Peninsula, the spine of which is the northern Gwaii Haanas boundary.
Avian Drama
When visiting T’anuu while travelling with the Passing Cloud we witnessed the harassment of an eagle by oyster catchers.
The Haida watchman told us that a few days before the eagle had killed and eaten an oyster catcher on this same beach and ever since the others would not leave the eagle alone, repeatedly dive bombing with a lot of noise.
T’anuu Llnagaay (or Tanu under English spelling) is a village on Tanu Island in Gwaii Haanas.
It has many Haida house frames and features preserved from the 1800s and is an important tourist destination in the area.
It was a bonus to be shown a bit of nature’s drama at the same time.
Heater Harbour
This is Heater Harbour at dawn taken from the Passing Cloud.
Heater Harbour is on Kunghit Island just east and south of Rose Harbour in Gwaii Haanas.
Hotsprings Are Back
While travelling on the Passing Cloud we stopped at Hotsprings Island.
The hot springs were turned off by an earthquake a few years ago, but in the last year have started to flow again.
New pools have been built to capture the new flow which has moved.
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