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The drive to Prince Rupert is a long 18 + hours. Caper of course had been suspicious for weeks that something was brewing, ever since she spotted me filling her travel bag. My ever trusty companion slept for the entire trip, maybe minus three or so hours. The drive is beautiful though and there was lots to look at. During the trip, I saw the cutest baby bear cross the road and then a few feet later saw its mother and other sibling. I also spotted two coyotes and some deer but no moose this time.

After driving for 14 hours straight, I stopped for three hours sleep and then again shortly after for a twenty-minute snooze but that’s it. I don’t know if it was the excitement or the red bull but I was eager to get this adventure started.

The area around Prince Rupert is one of the nicest in Canada. Everywhere you look the landscape is beautiful. I’m sure you can imagine how fulfilling the ferry ride was.

The Haidi Gwaii islands are split between two main islands. I’ll blog about the north island, Graham Island first. Right off the ferry,I camped in a tiny campground out on a point. A lovely addition at no additional cost to this campground is that it is on the same piece of land as a cemetery. Yep, that was a first. The campsite was nice and amongst a forest of huge trees. All was good, even with the cemetery until the road maintenance started first thing in the morning. It was actually comical. I might have as well been in a city. Packed up and headed north, North Beach was the destination.

There are little towns on the island and I stopped at all of them. They all have amazing character and even more amazing people. The Haidi people are very welcoming and full of smiles. They are also very bored and really REALLY like to talk to new people. However, don’t mention pipelines or oil tankers or you might as well pull up a chair. North Beach is something out of a movie. When I first arrived, there was a great fog that had settled into the bay and at the end of the beach was an enormous cliff drapped in fog as well.

I literally could, and did, spend days wandering these beaches. The tide pools, hunting eagles, massive trees and mossy rainforest just didn’t get old. I just walked and walked and found a lot of peace spending so much time in the fresh air and next to the ocean.

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