Seymour Inlet Part 2

The head of Seymour Inlet is large and open and stunning in it beauty. We were anchored up only about 7 nautical miles away so it was a short trip in the morning. We have heard there are often grizzly bears but we did not see any there.

The Seymour River enters the head of the Inlet and there is a large green delta at the head.

There is not logging there at this time. And very little evidence of logging. Some roads that are now overgrown with Alder.

We decided to go in to Salmon Arm and Frederick Sound for a look about. We had to go through Eclipse Narrows to enter. The Narrows were running about 3 knots – which was maximum ebb but they are short and pretty much uneventful. We had heard there was a nice spot to anchor in Frederick Arm but there was a logging camp in there. We thought we’d look and see how intrusive we felt the logging camp was.

The logging camp was pretty small and not intrusive at all. And after the night before it was nice to have company. There was a large dock and a helicopter. We discovered around 4 pm the helicopter was there to take the loggers back and forth to the work site. We enjoyed watching the coming and going’s. The helicopter made three trips in the afternoon picking up the loggers. It was small and had seats for 3 plus the pilot. There were 8 loggers, one pilot and one cook at the camp. In the morning the helicopter made two trips out and then a float plane came in and picked up two people.