Alert Bay, BC, Canda
This morning we spent some time exploring the Johnstone Strait, which is a pretty area, along the lines with everything else that we have been seeing along the way. Trees, cliffs, snow capped mountains, and all kinds of other great British Columbia treats. We’ve seen some pretty fine examples of the bald eagle, along with several other types of cool birds, but not much for the marine species up here so far. I’ve been trying to keep an eye out, but nothing much so far, except for the wayward log. We actually had to do a crazy maneuver to avoid some mostly submerged logs. It was a little exciting watching pots and pans go sliding, but we are pretty used to that now.
After lunch we stopped in a town called Alert Bay, a town of about 1500 people that is only accessible by ferry from BC. It’s the home of the second largest totem pole in the world, and several others that are quite fascinating. We got to get off of the boat for a bit and walk around, and I even scored a pretty nice patch for my collection. Oddly enough this tiny town has been my first score on the patch since I got on the boat. I couldn’t find one in all of Baja for some reason, I guess that not many people that head down there are patch collectors, but I have no idea why. Anyways, Alert bay was pretty cool, just in that it was a “typical” town for this area and it had a nice kind of down home type of feel. I enjoyed our very short stay there.
