After our exciting adventure around Cape St. James the previous day it was time to head north!
We stopped by Flat Rock Island after we left Luscoone - we tried to get fairly close to the island to see if we could catch sight of some Puffins.
There were quite a few on the rocks as well as some other sea birds although it ws pretty hard to get photos of them.
There were quite a number of boats anchored up in Rose Harbour now. We are starting to see more and more boats in the park.
We traveled up to Ikeda Bay - on the west side of Morseby Island. There is an old abandoned copper mine site in the area. The copper was discovered in 1906 by Mr. Arichika Ikeda. It was the richest copper discovery on Haida Gwaii. At its peak it employed 150 men - many miners brought from Japan and operated until the 1920's
The old mining site still visible.
We had wonderful clear and calm evening in the cove. We did not put the skiff in the water so we ended up not going to shore and exploring. I think it would be a great place to spend a couple of days exploring. There are some gravestone somewhere for 3 Japanese miners. There are no longer any real sign of the float houses and mining equipment - except for a few pilings on the north shore of the bay.
We did a couple of loads of laundry in Ikeda Bay - as we decided to go for water at Shuttle Island before we left the park
The next day we went back to the De Labeche Cove area and we decided to stay in Sac Bay - the bay we did not stay the previous time because there were boat already in there.
When we arrived in Sac Bay we had the whole bay to ourselves and we anchored up close to the head of the bay. It is a lovely bay - with high cliffs - there was a old land slide area on the shore - so we stayed far away from that spot. not long after we set our anchor -- three boats came in and anchored up - two sailboats and a Nordhavn
We have noticed a lot of slides in the park. The concern would be there could be trees and debris on the bottom and the anchor could get fouled. Which would not be fun!
We are finding more and more boats out and about in the park now - must be time for us to leave!
We stopped by Flat Rock Island after we left Luscoone - we tried to get fairly close to the island to see if we could catch sight of some Puffins.
There were quite a few on the rocks as well as some other sea birds although it ws pretty hard to get photos of them.
Flat Rock Island
There were quite a number of boats anchored up in Rose Harbour now. We are starting to see more and more boats in the park.
We traveled up to Ikeda Bay - on the west side of Morseby Island. There is an old abandoned copper mine site in the area. The copper was discovered in 1906 by Mr. Arichika Ikeda. It was the richest copper discovery on Haida Gwaii. At its peak it employed 150 men - many miners brought from Japan and operated until the 1920's
The old mining site still visible.
We had wonderful clear and calm evening in the cove. We did not put the skiff in the water so we ended up not going to shore and exploring. I think it would be a great place to spend a couple of days exploring. There are some gravestone somewhere for 3 Japanese miners. There are no longer any real sign of the float houses and mining equipment - except for a few pilings on the north shore of the bay.
We did a couple of loads of laundry in Ikeda Bay - as we decided to go for water at Shuttle Island before we left the park
The next day we went back to the De Labeche Cove area and we decided to stay in Sac Bay - the bay we did not stay the previous time because there were boat already in there.
When we arrived in Sac Bay we had the whole bay to ourselves and we anchored up close to the head of the bay. It is a lovely bay - with high cliffs - there was a old land slide area on the shore - so we stayed far away from that spot. not long after we set our anchor -- three boats came in and anchored up - two sailboats and a Nordhavn
Sac Bay has high peaks of granite at the head of the bay. Very pretty - but it seemed to be a bit enveloped with fog and rain and clouds. De Labeche Cove was quite bright and sunny and as we motored by and into Sac Bay we seemed to have a completely different weather system in there!
We have noticed a lot of slides in the park. The concern would be there could be trees and debris on the bottom and the anchor could get fouled. Which would not be fun!
We are finding more and more boats out and about in the park now - must be time for us to leave!
