Day 3 - Tsusiat Falls to Cribb Creek - June 30, 2013

Day Three - June 30, 2013
      (Tsusiat Falls to Cribb Creek)

Yippee! Another day of adventure!  Around 17 km of adventure.

We break camp with unusual haste - usually we were the last out at any campsite. But not today.

 A rising tide threatens to close our passage to some headlands.

We made it.  In brilliant morning sun Verity and Felicity pass through Hole in the Wall.

We look back to see another trekker passing through the arch.  Mother Nature was sweet that morning.

And we are off again on the run to Nitinat Narrows. By now I have recovered some of my jam.  The girls never lost theirs.





On the heights above the Pacific we wend along the bend of bay.  Thinking of lunch.  A real lunch.





Felicity loves this stretch.


So does Verity.





           
After the descent to Nitinat Narrows we catch the ferry across the narrows to arrive at the restaurant for some traditional west coast dining.  Salmon is on the menu






And of course some of the finest crab in the world.

            

           I take the crab.

After gorging ourselves, and amid some distress over our excess, we gear up and head up again.  This time the uplands are boggy and I get excited about the my first big experience of the carnivorous sundew plant.

Cribb Creek is still some distance.  With time rushing so must we.  To the side are some typical beachside markers for entrance to upland trails.  We go overland.


      
Then we climb up and down, then up and around, then down to Cribb Creek where we make camp.

I think Verity is enjoying the great out-of doors.





So is Felicity.

I get a yearning to do some washing and drying and so construct what might be the frailest clothesline on the west coast.  Then turn in.