Port McNeill

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Port McNeill, British Columbia, Canada

Port McNeill

The town of Port McNeill
First time here: we had to explore this "town"… not to big so it went fairly fast and what's to see:

A nice waterfront: with view on the islands (next time)
Harbour walk: with views on all the boats and a wonderful cute dolphin
An amazing monkey tree we saw it with fruit or flower??? It looks strange
An old steam donkey from 1938 – easy to discover this was once a logging town

Largest tree burls
They say those are the 2 largest ones in a world – and you wonder – really why did they have to cut so amazing trees, and in case you don’t know what a burl is, if you see those you will know: abnormal funky growing’s in the trees.

No 1: is in the middle of the town – the tree cut in 2006 (I can’t believe they dared cutting down a tree this large only that recently – you ask if they ever heard about protecting a 1000 year old tree) – it weighs 30 tons and is 6 m in diameter

No 2: we found up the road from a 351 year old Sitka Spruce and it was cut in 1976 – this one is covered in a paint, so it won’t deteriorate.

Cluxewe Campground
In case you can’t pronounce it, then it is time to learn the Indian language. – Cluxewe means “place of the changing river mouth”. And the very best we got a campground right at the ocean, with Claudia & Uwe next to us. Sitting on the beach and watching the beach – opening the door and walking onto the beach…

It’s cloudy
So either it is true and there are more clouds at the northern part of the island or it’s a cloudy summer….

A walk along the river and the lagoon
We did had to check out the lagoon and the river… and we found a seaweed which was in a circle full of dead crabs… looks kind of creepy , trees falling over, moss hanging on trees.

Sunsets at the strait
And in the evening it was really nice with a beautiful sunset… the sun coming out and sparkling over the water, perfect to sit with Claudia and Uwe and enjoy it and talk about going RV’ing….