Well ..... the cruise is done and it's back to regular routine. Having withdrawal already. We arrived back at the dock in Patricia Bay Sunday morning after another gorgeous day (Saturday) and very calm trip around the south end of Vancouver Island. Saturday we were in the Broken Island Group - got to put on an immersion suit and jump off the boat (fantastic), and our Chief Scientist took us for a shore excursion to Dicebox island. Audrey has been working with a number of anthropologists and First Nations elders using many of the techniques she uses aboard ship for her own research to discover the past. On Dicebox island they have found numerous house sites, defence sites, and lookout sites. There is a canoe run on the west side of the island and I can't imagine the hours of work it took to remove the rocks/boulders by hand to create it. We had a picnic lunch, a chance to swim, and then it was back to the Vector.
The trip was amazing and I wish I could convey how privileged I feel for having had the opportunity to particiapte. I can't thank Audrey and the rest of the team enough for making me feel so welcome, and a part of it. I am very very interested in what they find now with the cores as they get into the detailed analysis - as they analyze weather patterns over the past years, and correlate them with the info from the sediment cores what does it tell us? What impact did the Japan earthquake and tusnami have on our coast? What are they discovering about the past to help plan the future?
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