KYUQUOT-May 14, 2011

Modes of transportation yesterday: car, ferry, float plane, power boat, kayak. 

This is the village of Kyuquot from the air.  250 people live here.

Shortly after I arrived yesterday, we took kayaks out to tour the area.  Lots of islands and little bits of mainland so we didn't go out to open ocean.  Sara took me to an island where the beach is covered with fossils of shells.  I picked a couple to take home for yard decoration.  The water is calm and everything is beautiful.

Today we took the power boat to Spring Island and walked across the island from the kayak camp to the open ocean.  The island is very lush and green, the ground of all moss and the tress are covered in angels hair.  We hiked to several different beaches, had our picnic lunch, picked a few bits of ocean glass and looked for glass balls.  We saw eagles, oyster catchers and watched a hummingbird go from flower to flower right at our eye level. 

To get on the island, Sara dropped me off on a Rock and then moored the boat to a bouy and came up to the beach in the kayak we carried on the boat.  When we were leaving the tide was out so she took the kayak to the boat but when she came to pick me up, I was standing on a rock in fairly shallow water and she knocked me off with the boat as I was trying to hand her the bag of gear we had carried (coats, lunch, shoes etc).  She was laughing so hard, she couldn't even grab the bag I was trying to hand her.  Fortunately only my pants got wet, I managed to throw the bag in the boat and had my shoes hanging around my neck so they stayed dry.  Sara went around again, and then floated up to me on my rock and I managed to get in the boat.  I had to take my pants off as they were soaked so riding back with no pants and wet undies was a bit chilly. 

We saw a wolf standing on another island but he left before we could manoever close enough for a photo.  We saw lots of sea otters and one in particular was not the least bit threatened by us.  Sara kept taking the boat right up to him and then we would float along side the otter and take pictures but he just cruised along on his back watching us.  We both got some good video of him.