Green Island Anchorage

It has become a tradition to go walkabout on the last week of the season, and 1997 was no exception. We had been north to Hakai Pass once in 1996, and decided to try that area again, and have a look further north to the outer coast near Bella Bella, at habitat that looked like grey whale turf on the charts. We spent the last week scouring the coast from Cape Calvert to the Goose Group, but found no large whales, just a single dolphin and its calf in Queen's Sound. We did find a whole new coast to explore, however, and immediately fell in love with it.The whole area is narrow fjords with tiny anchorages tucked away behind small islands, accessible only thanks to the Canadian Hydrographic Service and its well detailed charts. One of these places is Green Island Anchorage. We found it by accident, as a bunch of humpback whales in FitzHugh Sound forced us to abandon our original destination of Duncanby Landing. We dropped the anchor just as the sun was setting, and were greeted by a stillness made wild by the howl of a lone wolf in the mountains to the east. When darkness had settled in, somebody noticed the bioluminescence, and that shattered the quiet as one after another shower-starved "cerfer" hit the water to splash about in the sparks of light.

Duncanby Stories

Home port: Duncanby Landing.

Duncanby Landing has become a regular port of call for Dagon. The settlement (if you can really call it that - two people, a dog, and a cat) was built by BC Packers back in the 1930's sometime as a refueling stop for the fish boats working Rivers Inlet & FitzHugh Sound.