Rose Knits for Gilly
Enthusiasm
A lot of Petticoat knitting has been going on in the Cupboard…Tatty thinks this is a wonderful thing, since she is very fond of unmentionables and not very fond of other kinds of clothing.
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Tansy Visits the Haida Village of K’uuna
Tansy and her favourite photographer, travelling aboard the schooner Passing Cloud, visited K’uuna Llnagaay (Skedans) once in the summer, and tried another time but the water was too rough to disembark!
For a location map, click this link, and if you want to go on a virtual tour using Google street link then click on this link and follow the arrows. If you click, hold and swipe, you can rotate the view and go in other directions.
In the top picture Tansy is excited to see such a deep house feature. In Haida tradition a house pit has to be dug in one day. The bigger and deeper the pit obviously the greater the resources a chief could organize to get the job done, and thus the more powerful and higher his status.
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Laskeek Bay Conservation Society
Disembarking from Passing Cloud
Another stop that Tansy made while on the Passing Cloud was at East Limestone Island (click here for a map) the location of the Laskeek Bay Conservation Society field station. The Limestone Islands are north of the Gwaii Haanas protected area off the east coast of Louise Island.
The Laskeek Bay Conservation Society was founded in 1990 with the initial purpose of studying Ancient Murrelet populations, though their natural history work has expanded considerably since then. The Society works as a collaboration between members of the public and the scientific community who work from the field station for three months of the year. Read more about their work at this link to their excellent web site.
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Tansy Visits Hotsprings Island
The Passing Cloud stopped at Hotsprings Island (click here for a map). The Hotsprings themselves were a casualty of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in 2012, but seem to be trickling back in a slightly different location. The bath house is no longer in the right place! Watchmen still look after this special place – their cabin is in the background of this picture.
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Apple Green and Pink
Following the chart
A friend put a huck lace tea towel warp on her little loom, and invited Constance and her human to do a bit of weaving!
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Tansy Visits the Haida Village of T’aanuu
Tansy and her favourite photographer, travelling aboard the schooner Passing Cloud visited T’aanuu Llanagaay twice this summer!
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