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Pesuta

“I’m stranded here,” my mother said when I called her one evening last week. An eye infection in her good eye has left mom totally blind, in a sea of darkness in her room at Birchview Home. It made me think of Pesuta. She’s been stranded for ninety years, since 1928, the year mom was […]

Filed Under: Activities, Attractions, Countries
Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, Haida Gwaii, Hiking, Queen Charlotte Islands, Tlell River

Fish Tales

One of our best experiences this year was on the OceanLight II in the remote Gwaii Haanas (the southern part of what used to be called the Queen Charlotte Islands). Onboard was a crew of three: Captain Tom; first mate Jennifer; and cook Luise. And four jubilado couples: Stewart, the eldest, and Denise; George (a […]

Filed Under: Activities, Attractions, Inspirations, Sleeping
Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, Gwaii Haanas, Oceanlight II, Queen Charlotte Islands

Gwaii Haanas Medusas

In the Haida language, Gwaii (they prefer Gwaay) means islands, Haanas means beautiful and K’yang.ga is the word for a jellyfish with tentacles. Gwaii Haanas is the short version for Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve covering the islands and waters and Haida villages in the southern area of Haida Gwaii, which was formerly known as the Queen Charlotte […]

Filed Under: Attractions, Countries, Inspirations
Tagged With: BC, Canada, Gwaii Haanas, Haida Gwaii, Lion's Mane Jellyfish, Ocean Light II, Queen Charlotte Islands

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