Said farewell to our kind airbnb hosts and hitched a ride with a grandmother and small granddaughter to the start of the Spirit Lake trail in Skidegate. Put our bacpacks undr a picnic table where they'd stay dry. No need to worry about them there - we've stayed in three houses on Graham Island, and never once have we been given a key! Nobody locks their doors here!
Spirit Lake trailhead
A red-breasted sapsucker has been at work here
This, on the other hand, is a "culturally modified tree". Many years ago, when they were still living their traditional lifestyle, Haida people harvested strips of cedar bark for making waterproof clothing and watertight food containers. They also dug into the centre of a tree, put burning embers in and looked to see if smoke came out the top of the tree; if it did, the tree was rotten in the centre and would not be cut down to make a canoe. This one evidently failed to pass the test, because it's still here.
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