Bob Turner held us spellbound by the drama of the geologic story of Howe
Sound, as we motored from Bowen Island up to Brittania Mine. On the way we paused to view
the many seals at Pam Rocks, the raucous sea birds at the sanctuary of
Christie Islet and circled the cliffs and coast of Halkett Bay, the
Defence Islands and Anvil Island, at each pause considering what forces
of nature created and shaped the landscape before us. Beautiful Camp
Potlatch and Potlatch Creek provided a welcome landlubber picnic spot
before we motored home to Snug Cove.
Great thanks to Bob Turner for his genial and expert guidance.
Thanks also to Cherie Westmoreland for these wonderful photographs from the tour:
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| Cormorants on Christie Islet. |
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| White granite cliffs, smoothed by glaciers, stained rusty by iron minerals leaching through the fissures in the rock. |
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| Notice the aquamarine of the ocean, so coloured by the glacial silt transported by the outflow of the Squamish River. |
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| A view of Howe Sound from Camp Potlatch. |
