Picture my friend took.. There were much more where this came from.

Haida Gwaii is full of wild edibles! I was eating delicious chantrelle mushrooms twice a day, found a pine mushroom the size of my head, chicken of the woods, tons of boletus, though I'm not much of a fan, and berries galore.A guy named Bobby came up to me in a parking lot and offered me a dry place to sleep, a shower and some fish to eat, so I went over and ended up staying five nights there. He took me fishing for tuna out in the open ocean and we caught some big salmon closer to shore. I made sure they had enough chantrelles to eat while I was there.Found a decent blackberry patch in Sandspit. I filled up this bottle twice and ate blackberries for half an hour while doing it each time.I brought a hammock with me for shelter, but I more often just cowboy camped, or set up a tarp using sticks, a picnic bench, or View attachment 396164 other random things.Last year I read a book called 'The Golden Spruce.' That book fuelled my desire to visit Haida Gwaii. So here it is - the weathered top of what used to be the golden sitka spruce, hanging over the Yakoun River.I finally got out to the West Coast of the North Island via Rennell Sound. It's a dirt road with a 25% grade towards the end. Getting back up on the way out felt like a hillclimb.If they had skiing on Haida Gwaii I never would have left, but the time had come for me to start making my way back "home" to the Interior, with some more Coastal exploration on my way. Suck it, BC Ferries.Had to take off my front wheel and bark busters to get it in the van. But it was totally worth saving all that money on the ferry.