Seventy five
kilometres of
Vancouver Island
Bamfield to Port Renfrew, north to south, eight days on foot. Ladders, cable cars, a bear at Nitinat Narrows, and a pair of boots that never quite dried out.
Day by day
The bus, the boots, the first ladder
Bamfield trailhead
Read the day
Blisters and bliss
Michigan Creek to Tsusiat Falls
Read the day
Cave camping, and the bear
Tsusiat Falls to Cribs Creek
Read the day
A full day of sun and fun
Cribs Creek to Walbran Creek
Read the day
Ladders, cable cars, Logan Creek
Walbran Creek to Camper Bay
Read the day
The shelf and the boulders
No diary entry was ever written. The photographs survived.
See the photographs
Beach bocce and sunshine
No diary entry was ever written. The photographs survived.
See the photographs
Port Renfrew, the finish
No diary entry was ever written. The photographs survived.
See the photographsThe diary stops at day five
It was written in 2004, a day at a time, and then it stopped. Day six was started and abandoned halfway through. Days seven and eight were never begun at all.
The photographs from those last three days came home fine. Owen Point, the shelf at low tide, Thrasher Cove, the last kilometre marker, the finish. They have been sitting in a folder for twenty two years with nothing written under them.
They are all in the gallery.