Name: SOINTULA: Visiting a FINNISH TOWN
Uploaded: 2019-12-04T07:40:54.000Z
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well good morning everyone we are back in Port McNeill we are doing another trip

today we are heading over to Malcolm Island to visit Sointula yeah the

Finnish community of Sointula and what does that mean Audrey it means place

of harmony place of harmony in Finnish that's nice but today instead of walking

we are driving the car into the ferry because the island is a little bit

bigger than the one that we visited yesterday yeah we're gonna be driving on

the island and there is a point where apparently you can see the Orcas yes

maybe we'll get lucky and we'll be able to see some waves

we're definitely going to go there and also there's some really good hiking

trails as well so there's quite a bit to do on the island and because it it's

considerably bigger than alert Bay we've decided to take the car so that we can

we can cover everywhere there's nowhere where we can we could do all this on

foot no impossible and it's the same fee as the passengers like that we're still

being charged ten dollars per person but the only difference is we're paying $20

for the to take the car on so really it's only $15 more because we

had to pay a $5 parking fee yesterday so we have just 15 extra dollars and we get

to have the vehicle on the island well worth it on top of that today's kind of

a rainy day wasn't typical Vancouver Island weather and if it starts pouring

then at least we have the car to go around and we don't have to you know

like I mean lose a day you know now we are waiting to board weigh-in the board

the crossing from Port McNeill to Sointula was just 25 minutes so an even

shorter journey than the previous day's trip to alert Bay we already mentioned

this on our last ferry ride but as a reminder you'll want to check the BC

ferry schedule since ceilings are in very frequent and you don't want to lose

a few hours waiting for the next boat plan ahead so you can really make the

well we've arrived on the island and we're going down some dirt roads we've

already seen a little baby deer a little Bambi on the side of the road waiting

for us so that was pretty cool and our first stop of the day we are planning to

go to bear Point Regional Park we've got a little map of the island and

apparently there's a trail we can walk it's called

beautiful Bay Trail and they have a lookout point with a whale watching

platform so maybe we'll get lucky since we're not actually doing any whale

watching tours maybe we'll just be there right place right time and we might be

able to see something off in the water so that is where we're headed next yeah

still raining but I mean we've got our umbrellas it's nice that we have the

car today so we can stay kind of dry yeah back with an update

another reason we stopped at bere point is because we had been told by fellow

hikers that you can sometimes see orcas rubbing on the pebbly beach so we sat on

a log and waited and waited and waited with umbrellas in hand but the orcas

eluded us once more I'm not gonna lie guys it was a cold and wet day and my

morale was pretty low but that's just travel for you sometimes the weather

cooperates and other times you have to go out there and try to enjoy the

well guys welcome to the forest it almost feels like an enchanted forest

here what do you think welcome to the fort welcome to the

wilderness you know this is a forest but it's also a wild place we were we were

driving by and we wanted to stop to show you what it looks like from the inside

right because so far we've been driving and filming the forest and the woods

from outside all you see it's a curtain of green and you don't really have idea

what goes on inside once you get into this places it's like you step into

another world it's surreal you know I don't know if the camera can really do

justice to what you see here but you walk in there and you feel like you're

walking on top of a sponge yeah everything is kind of goes down you know

from the years of decay of rotten logs and branches and leaves and what have

you you know maybe centuries and centuries of stuff that has been piling

on the on the floor also they the magnitude the Majestic of this place you

know like I mean it's something that it leaves you speechless is a WOW factor

you know every time so it almost has a bit of a magical element with like all

the trees covered in moss and old man's beard like it feels like something out

of Narnia like you've walked into the Wardrobe and you're in this magical land

no that's not in this go up this little feel a little bit following here yeah

it's fantastic you really on Malcolm Island you really feel the ruggedness as

you take the logging roads out into the bush it's green like even the tree

trunks is amazingly wild you know like I mean pure nature is pure nature again

you know it's like the cycle of the forest it's amazing here you can see it

look at the bottom these rotten trees and branches and trees that have been

you know that they fell and what can I say Wow no one who ever have the chance

of visiting this part of the world please do so because you will not be

beautiful camping ground over there with all the services I was just telling my

daughter that this country that the best way to see Canada is to have like a

Motorhome some sort of like a trailer where you can sleep and you can stay a

couple of days here a couple of days there you know it's so vast and there is

so much to see it we rented a car but then you need to stop in houses and

hotels motel or whatever you want to do but if you have your own in a motorized

our next stop on malcolm island was Pulteney point lighthouse over on the

west end of the island built in 1943 this is both a lighthouse and a fog

alarm building that provides navigational aid to boats traveling

between the Queen Charlotte's Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound the lighthouse

isn't open to visitors however we still enjoy the beach walk it takes to get

there so we'd recommend it for anyone looking for a short hike

well we just finished visiting the lighthouse what not to keep in mind you

have to follow a trail through the woods and that leads to the beach then you

turn left but I've read online that it's not accessible during high tide so we

just got here without checking the schedule we looked at we were extremely

lucky basically yeah otherwise you won't be

able to make it like no it's a beautiful rugged lookout point though I mean my

gosh right now it's one o'clock in the afternoon so water is still far away

enough that you can still walk the beach it's just so nice to walk along the

coastline there really to be the only people we just saw another couple very

briefly the beach is all full of logs you know all those logs that you see at

the beach there are the logs are either they fall because here the forest

reaches practically the water it does what is edge so when that tree falls is

goes in the water and then who knows which Beach is gonna show up in you know

in my opinion definitely worth the effort the drive over here is fantastic

- it's like a logging road and yeah it's very rugged you really feel like you're

exploring the frontier area of the island Malcolm Island

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