Picture: Pictographs at site of Native village of Karlukswee

With the gales still howling in Johnstone Strait, we took a detour through the inner islands of the Broughtons. Had two white-knuckle passages through narrow rocky Chatham Channel and an even narrower and rockier passage called the Blow Hole. Got through them without incident except when a powerboat insisted on passing on our right and forced us left towards the rocks.

Motored slowly by the old villlage of Karlukswee and noticed some rust color on a cliff nearby. Went to investigate and found pictographs of sailing ships and some other objects we couldn't identify. One looked like a stagecoach with horses but where could they have seen that?

Pictographs are paintings in ochre that were usually done on cliffs. Amazing that the paint has lasted what must be almost 200 years.

That night we anchored in Double Bay at Hanson Island. A very rolly anchorage with swells coming in from Queen Charlotte Strait. Plus a large barge that serves as a generator for a sportsfishing lodge took up most of shallow water anchoring space.

The next morning it was foggy and calm and we motored to Port McNeil to do laundry, email, grocery shopping etc in preparation for heading north into the true wilderness.