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Published: October 7th 2010
ATLANTIC TO PACIFIC ACHIEVED!!!
Our arrival in Prince Rupert meant that we had ridden from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Although the last time we had seen a "real" sea had been Port Hope Simpson in Labrador it did not seem that we had not seen a sea as we had seen several huge lakes - Lac St Jean in Quebec and Lake Superior - one of the Great Lakes.
THE INSIDE PASSAGE
We decided to catch the ferry from Prince Rupert to Port Hardy on the northern tip of Vancouver Island. This is a 15 hour ferry journey that travels down the Inside Passage. We had to be down at the port at 6am which was a little hard after spending a very late night the night before chatting to a mad American who was two-up on a KLR and had just riden through Yukon and Alaska with a minimal of comforts. He told us that one night he had heard a sound outside the tent and emerged to find a bear which had tipped his bike over and was trying to break and enter into his Jesse panniers to see what he could find!!
The
sea was fortunately like a mill pond and the scenery picturesque. We were so lucky on the journey to see two pods of hump backed whales and a school of killer whales (apparantly they are the correct collective nowns). Unfortunately no photos as they are just too fast, but we did see one hump backed whale do a full breach (jump) out of the water and another do the classic tale sliding under the water trick. This saved us having to book a separate whale watching trip!
One rather amusing incident we witnessed from the ferry involved a golden eagle and a crow. Crows tend to mob golden eagles and we watched a crow come out and start to pursue the golden eagle. Unfortunately for the crow none of his mates came and joined him and soon the golden eagle decided he had had enough and turned on the crow and a "dog fight" ensued with the eagle now chasing the crow. Crows are more agile than eagles and he twisted and turned to get away from the eagle and folded his wings against his body to drop like a stone. Eventually he dived into the heart of a
Inside Passage
Like a mirror the water was so smoothtree and escaped probably thinking he had just made the biggest mistake of his life which he had been lucky to hang onto.
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