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Post by BrianWilliams on Mar 14, 2005 22:09:43 GMT -8
I hope I have the pic protocol working for these photos: Powell River Queen approaches Campbell River (about noon, 25 Feb 2005) ...  |
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Post by NMcKay on Mar 14, 2005 22:11:23 GMT -8
why sad day?
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Post by BrianWilliams on Mar 14, 2005 22:23:13 GMT -8
Powell River Queen is a dandy high-volume barge for the short Discovery Passage crossing. Pretty, she is not. Tenaka, though, is stylish and swift. She runs from Heriot Bay to Whaletown across broad Sutil Channel. Tenaka, powering out of Heriot Bay on a late-Feb morning:  |
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Post by BrianWilliams on Mar 14, 2005 22:25:05 GMT -8
"Sad day" explanation in a moment. Bear with me. Thanks.
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Post by NMcKay on Mar 14, 2005 22:26:05 GMT -8
certainly, you just take your time. and btb nice pics.
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Post by Retrovision on Mar 14, 2005 22:36:10 GMT -8
That pic of the Teneka is quite eye catching. Especially for those of us who appreciate the Teneka, and rarely see such a great shot of her.
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Post by NMcKay on Mar 14, 2005 22:39:09 GMT -8
i apreciate them too..they are part of my small ferry collection.
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Post by Retrovision on Mar 14, 2005 22:41:14 GMT -8
err, I mean "...catching, especially..."
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Post by Koastal Karl on Mar 14, 2005 22:45:30 GMT -8
Yeah it is. I have only been on the Tenaka once and it was pretty neat cause it was a bit rough between Quadra and Cortes islands and she was rocking a bit.
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Post by BrianWilliams on Mar 14, 2005 23:10:50 GMT -8
I'll skip further Tenaka pics for now. Our "sad day" was Wednesday, 2 March. We had a week at Heriot Bay Inn, Quadra Island, starting 25 February. With our two dogs, we hiked and rambled Quadra every day. On that Wednesday ... We went out to remote Village Bay. We left the car at the end of a sketchy logging road. Picking up a trail, we followed its path over blocky granite bluffs and across bouldery beaches. Far up unvisited, uninhabited Village Bay; Jeannie spotted a "person sleeping on the beach?" in her binoculars. I looked, and my heart lurched. I approached, while she and the dogs held back. It was, sadly, a man stranded at the high tide line. Fully clothed and quite dead. We had taken 90 minutes going in. We marked the spot with some items from the flotsam, then double-timed back to the trail head. 30 minutes, by Jeannie's watch. Back at the car, we were still miles from help. We found a couple of guys cutting on a woodlot. They downed tools and got the RCMP on their sat phone. (Cell phones don't work on most of the island) Holy smoke! I am SO impressed by our Canadian police, military, SARs and civilian volunteers. We waited for the RCMP at the nearest paved road, to guide 'em in. They showed up tout-suite, with two cars and a trailer of ATVs. When I led the constables through the tangle of logging tracks to the trail head beach .. there was a CFB Comox Griffon helo following us. The cowboys almost put their bird down on our heads. They clipped a few Douglas Fir branches ... then diverted to the nearby rocky beach. ![]() www3.telus.net/cmstp/canis/qvihel00.jpg[/img] |
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Post by BrianWilliams on Mar 14, 2005 23:26:33 GMT -8
Sorry, all of you following this - I've been slow finding the photos to illustrate the story. In brief, we are "the hiker" (though it was two people and two dogs) who found Mr Stevens' body in Village Bay. We are sad to have made the discovery. We are also so pleased to see the immediate, effective response. We thought we were alone in an isolated place ... not so. My country, our country - Canada! sent in so many skilled, courageous people to recover one dead man.  |
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Post by Retrovision on Mar 14, 2005 23:29:56 GMT -8
I'm speechless... That must have been quite disturbing.  |
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Post by BrianWilliams on Mar 15, 2005 0:15:51 GMT -8
Yes and no. Finding Mr Stevens' body was frightening, because we were so alone and far from help. In the end I was concerned, mostly, because I thought he might be lost on the next high tide (due in 3 hours). I was, I am not ashamed to say, most really frightened in the moments when I approached Mr Stevens' body. Scrambling over the bouldery beach, over drift logs, I prayed that I wasn't seeing a dead person. I hoped to find a bundle of clothes, or a prank scarecrow set up by some hooligans. When, at a metre away, I saw it was certainly a dead man, I went into a cold, unhappy calm. One of our dogs had followed me this far. He approached the body: I barked something at him and he went away. Jeannie told me later that Bo raced over 100 metres of boulders and drift logs, back to her as though the Devil was on his tail. I marked the spot as best I could, then we hiked out quickly, as I have said. Our dogs, Bo and Virginia, ran before us all the way. There is no certain trail, just sketchy paths over the headlands. The mutts led the way - they knew we were in a hurry- and brought us out faster than we could have alone. Beautiful Village Bay:  |
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Post by BrianWilliams on Mar 15, 2005 0:52:50 GMT -8
The last couple of Tenaka pics (sorry, I mis-spelled her name in the header) Red flag flying on her Dangerous Cargo sailing into Heriot Bay. Hmmph, one vehicle on board: an empty truck who'd filled the tanks at Mansons Landing and Squirrel Cove.  |
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Post by BrianWilliams on Mar 15, 2005 1:00:28 GMT -8
... and Tenaka's beauty shot, powering out of Whaletown on a March morning:  |
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Post by Retrovision on Mar 15, 2005 1:32:27 GMT -8
What a graceful little ship.
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Post by Balfour on Mar 15, 2005 7:51:56 GMT -8
Quite an interesting story!
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Post by Curtis on Mar 15, 2005 8:35:02 GMT -8
Huh ???what are you talking about?
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Post by Guest on Mar 15, 2005 8:57:54 GMT -8
I can appreciate your feelings regarding this story. It was a God send that you were there on that day to give closure to the family.
We too were 'hikers' who discovered a body in the woods near our home. An old fellow disappeared and I had seen him 3 days before he was reported missing. When I saw the story on the news I spoke with police and a ground and air search was already underway. I lead them to the spot I had last seen the man, who appeared just fine walking along. On our way back up a back trail to home, my husband looked up and under a grove of trees partially covered by snow, was the body. I appreciate how you felt approaching and knowing it could be a body. It took weeks for me to get those visions out of my mind, and talking about it certainly helped. We commented how distressing it would be to discover someone unexpectidly as did you. Thank God you were in that spot that day to give closure to the family and gave some insight into the crash and the search. A sad day true, for everyone involved. We too have great respect for our search and rescue out of Comox, as well as everyone who spends countless hours in the search. Great photos by the way, we too have been on the Tenaka on a stormy day! A beautiful area.
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Post by Koastal Karl on Mar 15, 2005 9:41:50 GMT -8
Yes, quite an interesting story. I heard about the plane that went down and about some hikers who found the guy on the beach, but that is all I heard.
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Post by NMcKay on Mar 15, 2005 15:35:02 GMT -8
wow...small world
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Post by Curtis on Mar 15, 2005 15:37:46 GMT -8
Okay thats what were talking about I missed the first page
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Mar 15, 2005 20:36:13 GMT -8
Nice pics of the Tenaka. I really need to get on the major routes and get alot of pics.
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Post by NMcKay on Mar 15, 2005 22:24:00 GMT -8
we are definity classified as Ferry spotters when we say things like that.
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Post by kylefossett on Mar 16, 2005 15:59:16 GMT -8
those dangerous cargo sailings are interesting to be on. sometimes there is on vehicle onboard and other times it is full of tanker trucks. i have a dangerous goods transport ticket and this gets me onboard some of the dc trips as a foot passenger. helps if i have to get somewhere on a route and have missed a regular sailing
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