GRUMAN GOOSE AT DAWSONS LANDING

NAMU CANNERY PIER IN RUINS

ABANDONED NAMU CANNERY

OLD SHIP DERELICT AT NAMU BRITISH COLUMBIA

ECHO BAY, BROUGHTON ISLANDS

KWATSI BAY BROUGHT ISLANDS

KWATSI BAY BROUGHTON ISLANDS
Our trip through the Broughton Islands and around Cape Caution, our open ocean crossing, was blessed with wonderful weather. The winds were relatively calm as were the seas. Cape Caution can be a very rough place if the wind and currents oppose each other, but not this time. After rounding the cape we proceeded to a dock called Dawsons landing where a husband and wife and their children carve out a living in the wilderness. This is a second generation family. Really rough living. For example, besides people like us paying moorage, he collects loose logs from the waters, and then sells them to people who need logs for whatever purpose. It is agains the law to just go and cut down trees which are of course everywhere. Then we moved on to Namu, an abandone salmon cannery where hundreds of people worked and lived at one time. The canneries were prolific up and down the coast and then disappeared with the advent of refrigeration being added to fishing boats. With that technology, the fisherman were able to take the catch back to the cities to sell, vs. stopping at the closest cannery. The coastline is riddled with cannery debris, most of which have been absorbed back into the environment.