I bought myself a birthday present this year. A round-trip flight Vancouver to Bella Coola with 4 days in between.
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| About 3km each way, |
I flew with Pacific Coastal to Bella Coola from YVR South terminal. I was lucky to buy a sale-price ticket. Views from the flight were phenomenal.
I met up with Matt Bruce, he's living in Nimpo Lake and drove over to meet me. For two days we waited out heavy wind. We did some hiking instead.
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| Great mountain views in all directions. |
Finally on day 3 we had our weather window. We woke up at 3 am and headed onto the water right away.
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| Great views on the water once the sun came up. |
Tallheo hot spring felt like paradise.
We woke again at 3am the next day to beat the wind on our paddle back. We got back early and did a small hike called "Medby Rock".
All together a great trip!
Anyone reading this blog should do there homework before attempting this! Especially if they're paddling this route because the mentioned distance of about 3 km is completely incorrect. It's closer to 30 km from Bella Coola in water's that can have strong currents, winds and tidal changes. In-experienced paddlers or boaters should not attempt and those that do should travel early as most day's especially in the the summer afternoon wind's can blow up the inlets into significantly rough waters.
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