Autumn flowers
Cyclamen
Arianell waited patiently for me to tinker with a few joints (her right shoulder kept popping out) and also hoped I would make her some respectable clothes. The dress in this picture is the first version of a plaid dress I made out of a men’s handkerchief…
Arianell
Chips
I brought my bag of carving tools on a special trip to Oregon where a sycamore blank awaited me. This is the result at the end of the first day of work… (more…)
Last Stop Shearwater
Waiting for table service
The final leg on Tansy’s Passing Cloud adventure this year was to an anchorage at the small coastal town of Shearwater which is close to Bella Bella, and an airport.
They dropped anchor in the afternoon and went ashore for a pub meal…
Tansy Visits Goose Island
Speaking to old spruce that have been down for a long time can be a slow process.
Tansy had never been to British Columbia’s Central Coast. Her first time in this area turned out to be on Goose Island, one of the wildest places at the eastern edge of Hecate Strait. The Passing Cloud had anchored in a cove after the transit from Haida Gwaii and Tansy was pleased at the chance to go ashore, especially at a place that few people ever set foot.
Tansy Crosses Hecate Strait
Dawn after the trip is well underway
Tansy, and her favourite photographer, had never taken a boat, not even a ferry, across Hecate Strait to or from Haida Gwaii. So, they were thrilled to help transit the Passing Cloud across the Strait to the BC’s Central Coast where she will be doing Great Bear Rainforest tours for the fall.
The crossing started at 3am, and anchor was not dropped until 10:30 that night, about 240 km to the south-east.
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Tansy Returns to Woodruff Bay
At Anchor, Kerouard Islands in Distance
Tansy was thrilled that the Passing Cloud could stop in Woodruff Bay. It holds one of her favourite beaches (see here for other visits). While it’s the nearest anchorage to Cape St James often the wind and sea conditions make it an unsafe place to anchor, or to disembark.
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Tansy Rounds the Cape
Southward
Upon leaving the small beach on the west side of Kunghit Island, Tansy and the crew raised sail (~1350 square feet of sail cloth!) and headed southward to round Cape St. James at the very southern end of Haida Gwaii.
There was fog on the west side, and the water gets very deep very quickly as there is no continental shelf. Currents up-well from thousands of feet in depth creating a bounty of food and many whales and off shore species with a mile or two of shore.
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