going to kumdis island doug kayokos farmhouse

kayoko making 4 loave of bread for us to take to kumdis island where doug and she have a wood cabin on 45 acres of forest land

at the entrance to the port clements museum... this was the area where the logging of trees took place ... the big equipment is for logging the huge trees duing the 1900s

the old ships which were used to take the logs down the bay

dew drop flowers on the way

the house looks over a inlet...doug is walking down to the boat which will take us down to the log cabin on the island

doug driving the boat down the bay

its cold... have to wear life jacket cap and everything

driving onto the log cabin... 45 min boat ride

the boat on the dock... the tide goes out and thee is nothing but mud blogs

doug carrying up stuff from the boat

inside of the house

suzy... check out the view in the window...looks like a painting no?

the view from the porch...there is a deer i think in the grass.... video of it below

an overgrwon rhododenron tree in garden... i will prune it tommorrow

chilling by the fire

smoking outside... it gets dark at 11 at nite

kayo does so much work in the garden... weeding planting cutting...here she is with the weed cutting machine

a deer and its baby

setting sun 11 pm

we went for dinner to a neighbour...walked 20 min through fields... its an indian girl kikoo... imagine an indian so far down the wilderness and we meet... this is husband and child ryan

kiko cooking for us ...suzie and kayo

nite time view

jerry and ryan showing off the oyster mushrooms they went out to collect

the chair that doug made from the trunk of a tree

me peeking out of the rhododendon i am pruning

a purple iris in the garden

the ride on the noat coming back
the deer
doug singing
jerry rapping with his son

from seattle to queen charlottes island

so many pix...sash hope you are happy now... this is the record of the trip...starting at portland here is vivky my brother having his morning tea... i take a bus to seattle,

i make suzie try on some of my clothes which i give her to add colour in her life... here she is with the fabindia skirt and my shawl.....cooking something

in my salwar khameez

posing in sashas red silk outfit...

fron seatle we go to vancouver...am so tired there take no pictures ... we go and meet our reedie freind who runs a company for developing interactivity onto websites.... and from vancouver we take a bus then a ferry to naneimo port a 3 hour ferry ride

a bus for 10 hours and we are in port hardy where we stay at a bed and breakfast run by this italian woman...here she is with our breakfast

this is the ferry we will be on for 15 hours.... its 7 stories high.... water water water... we see a few whales far in the distance...see the water spouting off the whales and also their tails as they jump out of the water but it is very very far away

first nation pictures...first nation is how the candian indians call themselves

sitting at the ferry

how the ship goes through the islands

this is farrow, a girl 20 who is studying anthropology at university of british columbia...she has these fascinating books and articles questioning the notion and concepts used in development studies

suzie and me on the ferry .... wow its cold

the view ... snow mountains in the background

waterfall into the ocean

more views

in the dining hall with calun... a socttish guy who works on a wild life private farm in soctland...his job killing deer...who are growing too fast

sunset.... getting into port hardy

another view after sunset

a big norwegian ferry going by

more first nation haida paintings at lodge

we reached port hardy at 1030 at tnite spent nite at lodge and next morning boarded yet another ferry for a 8 hour ride to skidgate...on queen charlotte island, the land of the haidas.me on the ferry

the scenery

eating at the ferry... the group is of a phd student tom and his research assistants...he is studying why the cedar trees are dying in this area.they take samples of the trees by boring holes into them and then comparing the growth by looking at the tree rings

entering skidgate.... just 6 houses around

finally after 3 nites and 4 days of travel we are with doug and kayoko...both were at reed when we were, they dropped out in 1968.... and have been living here for the past 30 years

the slamon which doug caught...we are eating it for dinner

mornng sunrise from their house... sun rises at 430 in the morning..... the bay water has gone back so much that its just sludge ... thats not the sun its my flash

doug with son sylvan... he does maintainance work for government

fox gloves grwoing wild by kayokos house

there is a small parade at port clements preparing for july1 which is canada day.... one of the charachters

one of the floats in the parade