Alder Bay is at the Northern end of Vancouver Island, and Alert Bay is immediately across the bay on Cormorant Island.

This picture has Peter and Deborah climbing in the rock pools of Alder Bay anwhile looking for a mink that was eating crabs. It shows our tent and the campsite in the back ground.

The brickbuilding is the former residencial school, while the black and white building is the location of the masks which were used in the ceremonial potlatch dances.

Michel is looking across at the graveyard with genuine totem poles. Once erected, they were allowed to gradually age without repair.

The ecological reserve on the middle of Cormorant Island is a cold swamp on the top of a hill, and dark even on a sunny day. Michel and Christine demonstrate how individual planks were pealed from ceder trees which continued to live.

Take another one minute holiday with our family

Take the police car to the Calgary Stampede.

Take the train to Wales.

Take the bus to the New Forest.

British buses in Western Canada.