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Koeye Cove - Heilsuk & Owikeeno Nation



Beach at Fury Cove



We awoke to clear blue skies and a bright sunny day.  It was as if someone had flipped a switch for the summer weather to begin on August 1^st.  The aroma of morning coffee and home-baked bread added to the day’s pleasant beginning.  Leonard had prepared bread dough the night before and baked cinnamon rolls in the morning, quite tasty for his first attempt!  But then I must admit I did pretty well on my first docking with “Got d’ Fever” earlier in the week at Butedale.  After breakfast we departed Namu, which is recognized as the earliest carbon-dated site on the BC Coast establishing the record of aboriginal occupation as being over 9,000 years old.  As we cruised south, we spotted a Native Longhouse tucked behind Koeye Point near the Koeye River.  We read in one of our guidebooks that the property was purchased by the Rainforest Conservation Society, Ecotrust Canada, and the Land Conservancy of BC.  The property was later given to its original inhabitants, the Heilsuk and Owikeeno First Nations, who celebrated the transfer of ownership in August of 2001.  The Koeye area is now protected from logging and the Longhouse/lodge is used as a research center for natural and cultural studies.  We continued our cruise south along Fisher Channel which becomes Fitz Hugh Sound, and arrived 14:00 at Fury Cove located between Fury Island and Penrose Island.  This lovely anchorage is a great place for bird watching and has several white shell beaches, which we explored by kayak.  The cove is a popular stop over for both northbound and southbound boaters rounding Cape Caution.



Beach - Fury Cove



Kayaking - Fury Cove



Bird Watching - Fury Cove