Port Hardy/Cape Scott. Sept 21, 2024
We booked a tour for for today's adventure to Cape Scott provincial park. We were picked up at our campsite at 8:45 am and returned at 5:15 pm. The trip in is on a rough logging road. Also, if you meet a logging truck you need to back upto a pull out spot. Didn't really fancy doing that on our own.
This warning was on the road!
Apparently set up by loggers with a strange sense of humour.
Our first stop the Scarlet Ibus Pub in Holberg.
Holberg is at the head of Holberg Inlet which forms the far end of Quatsino sound.The earliest settlers were Danish who first settled in Cape Scott. They were there from the early 1900's until the 1920's . Most of them had given up by then. There is no longer any trace of them as they built from logs from the area. It had a revival in the 1950 with the building of Holberg RCAF base. At it height hosted a population of 850. The logging company began to bring in familys and providing them housing during this time. Total population of around 1500. There was a church, school, post office, and grocery store. Even a radio station. When the base closed in 1997 the community ended. The post office still exists. Holberg is now the main office site for Western Forest products in the North Island. There are bunk houses, a community centre and gymnasium. It hosts a permanent population of about 20.
The pub now has "cabins".
The huts are just that with a bedroom and a sink.
After our bathroom break we headed back on the bumpity bumpity road.
Finally the end of the road. It's time to hit the hiking trail to the beach at San Joesph Cove. The hike to Cape Scott and back takes about 3 days.
