Tansy visits Kiixin again 3
House Post and sign post
Another day at the site…Tansy and her companions recorded flora and fauna of the site…changes in both plant and animal health and distribution occur when there are systemic changes in weather and climate. Keeping track of these is an important indicator. Plant cover can help minimise erosion, but can also cause damage to the site if blowdowns occur during big storms, or when smaller plants use the posts and beams as nurse logs.
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False Lily of the Valley
It is early spring, so there are specific plants in evidence, including the False Lily of the Valley…
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Skunk Cabbage Leaves
…and the exuberant Skunk Cabbage…
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Skunk Cabbage flowers
…which really does smell like skunk musk when it begins to decay!
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Sea Stack
Tansy climbed up one of the sea stacks…
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Cinquefoil
…so she could view the Cinquefoil from close up…
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Bonsai Spruce
…and admire the naturally bonsai-ed spruce tree.
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tail fluke
Tansy felt so privileged to see a grey whale feeding just offshore…
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spout
…right in front of the village site! Thank you ?iihtuup
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Courting couple
And a pair of grouse, the male making an exhibition of itself and the female not all that impressed.
Thank you huu?iik
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Black Bear
And, look who strolled by…
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snuff
… thank you ci’ns
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Advice from a friend
After another long day’s work, Tansy went to visit her old friend Stella, who gave her some advice…
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Sasquatch
…and a little fuzzy friend to remember her by! He might be a c’ac’uuqh (stick man), we’ll have to ask Stella next time we see her (and apologies if I’ve got the wrong dialect, and for my terrible pronounciation)!
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Animal names are from:
Our World-Our Ways
Taat’aaqsapa Cultural Dictionary
Nuuchahnulth Tribal Council, 1991
Quimper Hittys 
Oh Wow!! a bear ! I get spooked by bears…. The grouse are wonderful, to see the male parading..what fun. Enjoying all the photos. Tansy and the Favorite Photographer are wonderful guides to this special world.
The bear was minding its own business, but Tansy et al were glad that they were safely inside the car!
Oh my goodness…. so much wonderfulness! wow… thank you!
It was pretty wonderful! You are welcome!
Loved this little adventure.
Tansy did too – she is a lucky doll, and she knows it!
It is so important to notice how Climate Change is affecting wild things and having good records is better than relying on memory.
It is surprising how much we think we know and remember! Comparisons of new data with recorded information can be quite illuminating!
I read that it is sometimes called ‘shifting baseline syndrome’ – we realise that there has been change since we last looked or when we first looked, but forget how much change there had been before that. It is only by recording data that we can see just how much difference there is over a long period
I like that Bigfoot is everywhere. Thank you for taking us along on this adventure! I especially love to learn about the plants.
Tansy was happy to visit Kiixin again, and very happy to visit with Stella – a friend of our family for over forty years! Stella’s little Sasquatch gift was unexpected and delightful!
What a variety of life in various forms were seen and photographed along today’s journey. Again, thank you for letting us come too.
It was fun to see – how lucky they were to see a whale right there in front of the beach!
What amazing day, I loved all photographs, Thank you, Love, nia
They were so lucky! That is a beautiful place, some day I hope to visit it too!
Thank you again
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