partnership with trover this time visiting three towns in the northern

part of the island where we have lots of cool nature sightings and also come

across some rather unusual attractions first up we visited Port Hardy where we

casually encountered a bald eagle locals were very calm about this occurrence but

the three of us were standing by the water's edge

cooling and eyeing at the display then in Port McNeill that we came across the

biggest burl in the world we didn't even know what a burl was up until her visit

but we'll tell you guys all about it soon enough and finally we hit up the

picturesque seaside village of telegraph cove where we learned all about killer

whales and came face to face with two deer who seemed blissfully unaware of

her presence it was a great day and we can't wait to share it all with you in

this video

good morning from Port Alice it is a new day it is a cloudy day but it feels

pretty nice out it feels cool fresh it's a very small town here okay I don't

think there is more than a thousand people population in this place there is

a water right here behind us a lot of small houses and something that caught

our attention is that in front of each house there is a small fishing boat so I

guess fishing here must be amazing if you have all the households with a boat

at the doorsteps there the garage that means that they use it and today the

plan is to try and visit three towns that are fairly close together we have

Port Hardy Port McNeill Telegraph Cove there are small towns but they have

unusual attractions well let's get in the car and let's get started get

driving

so we just stopped here on the side of the road we're about four kilometers

outside of Port Hardy but we wanted to take a picture with the town sign and

while we were snapping a photo we also noticed this giant blade it's like what

do they call the windmill windmill the middle blade yeah then we started

reading a little bit about the Cape Scott wind project that apparently

provides electricity for several communities here one of them being

port alice where we're staying right now we're port hardly port McNeill and port alice

oh wow yeah the communities get the electricity the energy from that wind

farm that is located right here and you've got a wind farm 55 turbines each

Blaine is 49 meters in length 7.5 tons of weight on when this the whole thing

is assembled the windmill is assembled you got 80 meters and the circumference

around all the tree blades is 100 meters big baby huh yeah yeah so this one was

damaged when they were building the wind farm this one was damaged beyond repair

so the town started like a petition to have it you know mounted here on display

and also to help raise more awareness about green energy in this area so

that's what it is now onwards to Port Hardy let's go this probably seems like

a bit of a random roadside stop but they also had giant info boards with tourist

information on each of the surrounding communities and nearby islands so it

turned out to be a good place to get some ideas of things to do in the area

well guys we're here in Port Hardy down by the beach there was a huge commotion

a few moments to go because there was a salmon a fish already dead floating on

the water's edge and these birds were going crazy the seagulls

now they've quieted down because they ate the whole thing but at one point

this Eagle this bald eagle swooped down and scared them all away it was also

trying to like catch fish yeah it was amazing we saw a bald eagle and we were

not planning to see one of those but yeah there is another one up there and

you see you may wonder why the name bald eagle when bald is someone that has no

hair oh just right over to the yes you're telling us about the meaning

about the meaning of the name bald you know bald is someone with no hair right

bald eagle you mean like an eagle with no feathers but actually the name ball

comes from the old English language when bald meant white so in the old all old

days when they first came here the settlers and they saw this magnificent

bird and they saw dye has white the head that's why they called it bald eagle you

know the white eagle it's just perched atop a tree just

watching the horizon I think if we stay here a little bit longer she's fishing

action she's fishing a few minutes ago she was going to catch a fish and the

water there probably a salmon or something like that but at the last

minute it looks like the fish went deep and she aborted the word demission

demission we almost almost that close of capturing

on film when it's that moment fishing yeah that's another so now that piece of

wildlife that we are seeing and we are not doing too bad ya know so far so good

we're we're we're hoping for a cougar yeah and an elk now if we see those two

anyway all the checkmarks are gonna be look at

this guy hi there so yeah let's keep on with the

expedition and we'll bring you along of course the bald eagle encounter pretty

much made our visit to Port Hardy we then walked along the waterfront where

we spotted a curious seal peeping its head out of the water plus we saw some

impressive totems it was a short visit but we really enjoyed the town

from there we continued our drive towards Port McNeill but we pull down a

logging road just shy of the town to visit rather unique attraction this

right here is a burl a burl is a knotty growth on a tree that can occur on the

trunk at the base of the tree or even underground in the form of a rounded

growth it's the result of stress on the tree due to injury of fungus or an

insect infestation so we are on the outskirts of Port McNeill we just pulled

off on this little logging road here and we have discovered the world's largest

burl so basically it was a spruce burl and when they found this it was

basically a 350 year old spruce tree that was seventy nine point

six meters in height and 1.8 meters in diameter so you can imagine just how

wide it was the weight of the burl now listen to this twenty thousand three

hundred and sixty one kilograms so I mean he imagined the size of that thing

we also noticed to preserve the burl they've got like some kind of a

fiberglass coating or something on the top when you're gonna see the video or a

picture it doesn't look real no because it has a fiberglass coating to protect

it if you like quirky attractions this one is worth the detour we added this

place to trover and included detailed directions to help you guys get there

since it is down a dirt road just outside the Talon we then drove into

Port McNeill to have a little wander around town and check out the marina

yeah we made it we made it it's only about 20-25 minutes away from Port Hardy

yeah it was just a short drive yeah and all of a sudden the Sun has come out it

is sunny once more yeah different kinds of towns but uh

feels a bit small this one feels smaller it's a little quieter feels a little

more remote and uh I like it here behind us we have tons of fishing boats the

harbor we have the harbor and we've also got the ferry terminal here which I

think we're gonna be making use of in the next few days to go to alert Bay BC

Ferries and Sountula - yes - lies the village I believe I

believe that song Malcolm Island yeah we can't wait to do that in fact we're

probably gonna do that tomorrow but for the time being I think we're just gonna

walk around the marina here soak in the Sun the weather is just incredible at

the moment and yeah just enjoyed this kind of chilled port vibe that we're that

we have here in Port McNeill

have you already chosen your favorite boat my dad has I like the big tugboat

over there oh the tugboat yeah your aren't even after a sail it's called the

new masked warrior I'm going for the most robust one here in the heart

alright anyways we've got another place to go visit we are going to telegraph

cove and that's an even smaller town yeah when I was reading information

about this town it said that it has 20 inhabitants :

yeah maybe some of them look maybe some of the people who work there actually

live here so it's not that far from here yeah I can't wait to go see it I think

it's gonna be so scenic

we continue to drive towards telegraph cove which may very well be the most

picturesque town we visited during our whole Vancouver Island Road trip

Telegraph cove started out as a fishing in cannery village but today it's an eco

tourism destination where you can embark on a number of adventures including

kayaking trips whale watching excursions and even grizzly bear tours

alright guys so we are taking a little break at the killer whale cafe it is 3

o'clock time for tea cake coffee a little mid-afternoon pick me up

I'm having a cup of tea cozy a cappuccino for me Sam ordered a monster

cake that he's not planning to share no I'm getting the chocolate peanut butter

cheesecake good shots of shots of the cake must film the cake before he eats

it why so what do you have there guys I'm in heaven at the moment I have an

enormous cappuccino and I wasn't gonna get a drink but when I saw your

cappuccino I'm like I rather get one too so big that is now the greedy part about

what's going on here is I have peanut butter and chocolate cheesecake and it

looks like it's been - rizal this with caramel sauce - guys how's that

Sam has been talking about the killer whale cafe for days so I'm glad you're

cute I didn't I didn't know they had such a good cakes but yeah so decadent

mm-hmm and I think after this we're gonna go visit the killer whale

interpretive center just around the corner yeah I think yep oh good

cappuccino - I got my happy place my cup of tea yeah it was about red rose speed

yeah they served it to the Queen and they advertise until they serve it to

the Queen and she was amazed by this tea and she says get it and the butler says

mom sold only in Canada and the Queen says after a little mid-afternoon treat

we walked over to the whale interpretive center which was founded in 2002 and

seeks to raise public awareness about marine mammals and the threats they face

the whale interpretive center is home to one of the best collections of marine

mammal skeletons in British Columbia and their exhibits include a killer whale

sperm whale river otter sea otter Pacific white-sided dolphin harbor seal

and more here we learned that each killer whale pod has their own dialect

of sounds they even had audio recordings so we were able to listen to what the

various pods around Vancouver Island sound like it was very cool of course we

added this place to trover because it's a must visit if you make it out to

Telegraph Cove

final stop of the day was Telegraph cove would you guys think of it very nice

yeah very picturesque yes yeah yeah they've they've kept it like the way it

was in the beginning and this this place okay these all the houses are not

occupied right now they look nice from the

exterior but this kind of like a tourist attraction right yeah they're not family

homes anymore it's more like a tour operator each house has like a little

information section telling who used to live here what they did where they were

from it's it's a very nice place to visit if you are ever around these

latitudes so you know take a drive and come and visit and you will not be

disappointed no yeah it feels like the time is spending still yeah did you guys

enjoy the museum it's funny because here all of a sudden you know we're talking

or filming a clip and also what is that suspend the whole day

the wildlife is everywhere we've seen as much as we wanted to see and beyond what

we were expecting to see when it comes to wildlife Yeah right

okay let's go

we didn't hike more than five minutes before we had a surprise two deer

munching on shrubs and bushes they were just a few meters away from us

and their little snack must have been very tasty because they didn't even look

up at us

and that's it for today's adventure on Vancouver Island in the next episode we

take the ferry over to alert Bay where we discover the meaning behind totem

poles at the Nagas original burial ground we learn about the gift-giving

tradition known as a potlatch at the you mystic cultural center and we also come

across the world's largest totem pole directly outside the big house all that

and more in the next episode so we'll see you soon