Day 13: West Side of Vancouver Island Flotilla - Nuchatlitz to Tahsis
by Laura Domela and Sam Landsman 29 Aug 2019 20:11 PDT
Day 13: West Side of Vancouver Island Flotilla © Laura Domela
With just 2.5 hours to travel today we didn't rush out of Nuchatlitz this morning, which turned out to be extremely beneficial. Last night at about 1:30 a.m. (and again at 4:30 a.m.), we heard wolves howling over on shore in what sounded like a new meal celebration, but it was too dark to see anything. Laura went out into the cockpit of Airship and recorded what we were hearing (along with some wave slap and sounds of the flag blowing in the breeze).
This morning around 8:30 a.m., David on Dog Star whispered a message to the group. "Slowboat group, there are wolves on the beach." Score!! We immediately grabbed binoculars and cameras, and sure enough, there were two wolves. Then several more wolves. For the next hour we watched six or seven wolves roam the beach, jump and run and wrestle with each other, and occasionally eat from an unidentified carcass, shaking their share as if to kill it all over again.
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