Broughton Archipelago is very cool. There is history all around here. There are many islands, big and small, all of them steep-sided and heavily forested, several very nice anchorages, and some Secret Spots where you can go ashore and discover hyper-awesome old shell beaches (i.e., old First Nations middens) and maybe some old pits where longhouses used to be. The old-timers report at least 200 such sites in the Broughtons alone. Ahem: we haven't exactly...discovered much like that...yet...But, the air is cool, the trees are green, the clouds drop low, the coves are secluded, and very often in the channels among these islands, the wind and water are mirror-calm. As the guidebooks suggest, conditions like these make you contemplate the origins of life.

Many of these islands housed 1000’s of people logging and mining. The wild has taken back most of the evidence.

So far we haven’t gotten away much, but by being nice to our fellow boaters we have had wonderful salmon and cod dinners. We have been prawning ourselves and have also been stuffing ourselves with these little creatures. I have been filling the freezer up with seafood chowder.

Ken has been busy and loves what he is doing. I think he is sneaking an ice cream cone here or there as the scale is not budging. Not going up however. A good sign.

Again a very short blog but I haven’t seen or done much in 1 week.