Across the Curtain: Off to the Island and other updates

The trip to Vancouver Island

We took a ferry across to Vancouver island and spent a few nights in Victoria with Shaun's extended family, From there it was 500k's north along the island on a miserable rainy cold day to Cape Scott, the site of our next adventure. So here's some pictures up to that pt.

Leaving the Mainland

A very nice sunset from the boat

The view of Mount Baker in Washington from Victoria B.C.

OK...so here we are. The trailhead of Cape Scott, 20 K's of flat walking brought us out to the ocean and a few days of cool exploring - it was wet and muddy. The mud was often deep, calf deep (as in a baby cow)

Lots of rain means lots of green, Thankfully we had a tarp

A break in the clouds on the first day in, this is where we camped, glad we brought the ax for chopping up drift wood.

There was a lot of it!

Indiana Shaun!

So there were a lot of "cool" "elusive" things to be found on this adventure, We'll start easy and work our way up.

Cape Scott: Where Trees grow on trees

Cape Scott: Home of Ancient Logging Rituals. You may find this quite boring but i find it very cool. The little notches in this stump are the first cuts loggers used to make on big trees - they'd insert a plank or board into the wedge and then stand on it to cut the tree down - i've seen plenty of pictures of this but never seen it in person - Dutch colonists came here about 150yrs ago and unsuccessfully inhabited the region - this is evidence from their attempts.

Cape Scott: Home of the elusive leopard Slug - This thing is fast and deadly, i just got this shot off before it turned on me

This is it turning on me. You only have seconds left when you have this view in front of you. I was lucky to escape alive. Shaun stepped in front and took one for the team. He was eaten. It was gross.

Cape Scott: Home of Nessy's Cousin, Betsy - the elusive sailboat eating sea monster. We spotted Betsy off the coast attacking the sailboat - look at the size of the thing, they didn't have a chance. We just watched unable to do anything, again, it was pretty gross.