May 21, 2025 Blind Channel to Port McNeil

We left Blind Channel Marina at 6am

and motored across the channel (a mile) so Chris could “wet a line”. Still hoping to catch the big one. By 6:30 we were motoring North toward our next destination, Port McNeil. At 9:15 we passed the early buddy boats and at 10ish Chris had found another spot to give fishing go again. No luck there either.

Here are a few sights along the way, very calm seas and a pleasant boating day.

Snowy mountains just behind the clouds.

This is what the shoreline looked like most of today. Pretty interesting.

On our way to Port McNeil Chris and I stopped at Cormorant Island/Alert Bay to visit Linda, a quilting friend of mine who lives here.

In addition to this visit, Chris and I walked to the U’mista Cultural Center.

This was an amazing and fascinating place. I highly recommend it if you’re ever in the area. Here’s an except from a brochure.

U’mista Cultural Centre is one of the longest-operating and most successful First Nations cultural facilities in BC, founded in 1980 as a ground breaking project to house potlatch artifacts which had been seized by government during an earlier period of cultural repression. The return of the potlatch artifacts not only provided U’mista’s name (‘the return of something important’), and sparked a general trend toward repatriation of First Nations and cultural artifacts, it caused the creation of a physical facility and human resources infrastructure which have been successfully operated for over two decades.U’mista now operates a modern museum and cultural education facility in Alert Bay.