2014/06 Haida Gwaii trip - Sandspit |
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Sunday June 29th
We had the same showery weather in the morning and we headed back towards Sandspit. The road was surprisingly busy on a Sunday morning, even a couple of loaded logging trucks. We also met a good-sized black bear; apparently the local bears have abnormally large jaws, the result of their shellfish diet, but we didn’t get that close. We also came around the corner to find the road and trees full of eagles, about a dozen of them squawking and quarreling. Our guess was that there was a dead deer in the ditch somewhere.
Back in Sandspit we parked by the airport and its impressive coho sculpture and took a walk around the spit beginning with the Skidegate Channel and ending at the 
rougher Hecate Strait. There was a distinct diagonal line in the water presumably the result of the tides meeting around the islands.
The beach was full of small flocks of very active plovers, with a few oystercatchers cavorting among the flowers and lounging in the shingle. We barely got back before the tide would have forced us to climb over the rip-rap.
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