On November 28th, myself and three friends hiked almost 24km to the Cape Scott light station on the North Coast of Vancouver Island. It is a remote and isolated area, and considering the weather this time of year, we found ourselves the only ones hiking in the park that weekend. We hiked through a light snow/hail for most of the day, and were met by a wind storm of 100km/hr winds as we reached the beaches.
The area was settled in the late 1800's by Danish settlers. They struggled through a hard life in the area until it was abandoned in the 1950s. There are several grave sites to be seen as you hike the trail.
The area below is Hanson Lagoon, it was location of one of the attempted settlements, it is where we saw a small pack of wolves playing in the water. Keith caught
this video of the wolves shortly after they noticed our presence in the lagoon.
We found a lot of these lightbulbs on the beach which appear to be from boats. Keith was alos lucky enough to find two
Japanese Glass Floats.
You can see the sideways snow, and the drifts of it on the beach in the picture from Guise Bay below as the winds really picked up. Luckily the lighthouse keepers, Todd and Harvey, met us not long after this as the sun was setting. They came bearing "Cape Scott hot chocolate" and a life saving tractor ride up the last big climb.
