SGang Gwaay VI
Another shot taken while travelling on the Passing Cloud at the UNESCO World Heritage Site SGang Gwaay located on the south west side of Gwaii Haanas.
The nearest heavily eroded poles were burned in a fire in the 1800s.
There are various stories, but the one that I hear the most is that it was a revenge fire set by Ditidaht sealers aboard schooners heading south from hunting fur seals in the Pribilof Islands area.
I have written a long post about the fur seal schooners at this link.
If you want to know more about SGang Gwaay I have written about it in several posts (link) from previous visits.
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Hotsprings Island
While travelling on the Passing Cloud we made a couple of visits to Hotsprings Island.
The hotsprings were turned off by an earthquake a few years ago, but in the last year have started to flow again.
Unfortunately, they are now in spots away from the established infrastructure of pools and bathing houses.
Even so, the view is to die for so it is still worth a visit.
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Flying Beaver
I flew in to work on the Passing Cloud aboard a de Havilland Beaver floatplane, one of the workhorses of the north.
This view is somewhere over Hecate Strait.
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30km/h
Sandspit is strung out along the southwest shore of Skidegate Channel, with a road in front of the houses the whole way.
Gordon Islands
While on the Passing Cloud we passed by the Gordon Islands several times as they are between Kunghit Island and SGang Gwaay World Heritage Site.
We spent one morning exploring the Islands’ rocky ecosystems by zodiac.
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Chef
The Passing Cloud chef is seen in the wheelhouse and galley as we motor towards an anchorage in Gwaii Haanas
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