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Monday, October 24, 2005

"Backloading" Some Posts

Note from the Blogmaster: The three posts that cover the period from July 1-9, 2005 were actually posted on October 23, 2005. However, to maintain the visual continuity of this series of posts describing a journey taken in June and July, I've assigned them post dates that allow all of them to be read without interruption from posts describing more recent events.

Friday, October 21, 2005

Where In the World Is Princess Lousia Inlet?


Notes from the Blogmaster:

Princess Lousia Inlet is in British Columbia, Canada, but as you can see from the map above, it's a challenging location to reach.

In "Log of a Landlubber, writer Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason, shared the same kind of enthusiasm about this place that Cheryl expresses in the previous post:

"There is a calm tranquility which stretches from the smooth surface of the reflecting water straight up into infinity. The deep calm of eternal silences is only disturbed by the muffled roar of throbbing waterfalls as they plunge down from sheer cliffs. There is no scenery in the world that can beat it. Not that I've seen the rest of the world. I don't need to, I've seen Princess Louisa Inlet."

James F. McDonald, who purchased Princess Louisa Inlet in 1927, feared what developers and commercialization might do to the area, so in 1953, he deeded the property to the Princess Louisa International Society, explaining that:

"In giving my Princess Louisa Inlet property to the boating public of the Pacific Northwest, I feel that I am completing a trust. The head of Princess Louisa Inlet is one of the most lovely, outstanding, spectacular beauty spots in the world. It is Yosemite Valley, the Fjords of Norway and many other places all wrought into the background of our conifer forests of the Pacific Northwest."

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Princess Louisa Inlet, British Columbia



Cheryl hasn't spent too much time on the blog in the last two months, but she just sent the above photo by email with the following message:

"In Canada-Princess Louisa Inlet is the most beautiful place we have been in our life--so far. Pictures don't do it justice."


 
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