Watch where you dig!

In the 1930's, a fellow was digging a foundation to put in a theater* in downtown Port au Choix when he unearthed a bunch of bones that turned out to be an ancient native burial site. Eventually several sites in the area were uncovered, and archeologists were able to determine there were four different ancient native civilizations here from 3500 BC to 1200AD. These people had a diet heavy in shellfish and fish, killed seals, and ate berries. They suggest that these people came over the Bering land bridge and migrated to the North American east coast. Interesting stuff. (*still no theater in town)

We stayed two nights here at Port au Choix (Port of Choice), at an RV park run by the Lions in a great location right on the water. What a view! For the second day in a row, we ran across a sailboat with Oregon registration sitting at the town dock. There are very few recreational boats around. Turns out the folks aboard are Newfoundlanders, but used to live in Oregon, and kept their boat in Seattle. They were circumnavigating the island.

Nearby were the towns of Port Saunders (lots of very large commercial fishing boats) and the town of Torrent Falls where we hiked a boardwalk trail. Saw muddy moose hoofprints on the boards in several places, but no moose. The trail leads to a fish ladder at Torrent Falls and took us past: