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Up the West Coast of Vancouver Island:
Bunsby Islands to
Nasparti
Inlet,
Checleset Bay
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Day 14: Nasparti Inlet,
Checleset Bay |
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From the Bunsby Group we crossed Ououkinsh Inlet and worked our way west
along the Vancouver Island shore. The picture is looking west from
islet-studded Battle Bay, with Brooks Peninsula in the distance. |
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The bleak O'Leary Islets are home to a seal ion colony, and we were hoping
to see them. We didn't see any sea lions, but we did see the schooner
Pacific Grace, which we saw earlier in Hot Springs Cove. It was
heading north into Nasparti Inlet. |
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Proceeding up Nasparti Inlet, we tried to work
our way through the narrow entrance to Johnson Lagoon. But the wind
was blowing us about and the current was running swiftly, despite the
minimal exchange. Also the entrance is poorly charted, and we weren't
comfortable that we'd located all the hazards. So we anchored instead
in what the Douglass' called Baidarka Cove, just to the south. |
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We took the dinghy into Johnson Lagoon instead.
The entrance, with high cliffs on one side, seems very tranquil when you are
not trying to wrestle a 40-foot boat through it. |
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The lagoon was very pretty, which steep
tree-lined shores and several tidal flats at creek mouths. |
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We found a wonderful sea cave just north of the
Johnson Lagoon entrance on western shore of Nasparti Inlet. It started out
as a crevice in the cliff and then turned into a small cave at the end.
Moss grew on the sides and water dripped through at the front of the cave
from the trees above. The water astoundingly clear - we could see
probably 20' down. The wave action here was fairly gentle, but occasionally
the swell would whoosh into the end and create all sort of strange gurgling
sounds as it filled. I am just barely visible at the bottom of the picture.
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