Recapping Our Journey Through Gwaii Haanas with Outer Shores Expeditions
Aaron Saunders, Live Voyage Reports
I have been back from my trip aboard Outer Shores Expeditions’ Passing Cloud through Haida Gwaii’s Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, National Marine Conservation Area Reserve, and Haida Heritage Sitefor over a week now. I’ve had friends and family call me up and ask how it was. I’ve had people emailing in. Yet when I explain the trip to them in detail, I feel as though I am still left hanging for words.
On August 11, we arrived in Moresby Camp and officially concluded our journey aboard the Passing Cloud. Photo © 2014 Aaron Saunders
On Monday, August 11, I disembarked Passing Cloud along with my fellow guests. We enjoyed a morning of scenic cruising up to Moresby Camp, just south of Sandspit. When we’d dropped anchor, each of us took some time to say what the trip had meant to each of us. No one was bawling, but there was a substantial amount emotional tension in the air as each person – guest and crew alike – said there bit. The truth is, it’s impossible to take a cruise that’s this intimate and not form a bond with the destination, the ship, and the people.
Before I knew it, we were in the back of our taxi van – all of us – driving down a dirt logging road that would last for the next 90 minutes until we hit Aliford Bay where our journey began exactly one week prior. Captain Russ took us on one last hike before we did this, walking us to a place where we had seen bears on a previous journey.
We didn’t find bears. We found CAT’s.
Spotting a new – and disturbing – kind of animal near Moresby Camp. Photo © 2014 Aaron Saunders
Two enormous Caterpillar excavators were making their way across a narrow bridge perhaps 500 feet from u
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