Howl in the Mist
B.C.'s central coast is home to one of the world's least-studied wolf populations.
By Andrew Findlay, Photography by Ian McAllister
Ian McAllister and I drop anchor and lower the Zodiac, then aim for where a tea-coloured torrent spills into the azure waters of the bay. Misty drizzly falls from a sky as grey as the granite ramparts looming above the inlet. Ancient red cedars, like foreboding old men, exchange whispers of wind. As we nudge ashore on alluvial flats and tether the dinghy to a chunk of driftwood, that avian trickster of First Nations legend, the raven, squawks disapprovingly from a nearby cedar-snag perch. We are the only humans at the head of this forgotten inlet in B.C.'s Fiordland Conservancy. But the vast coastal wilderness hums with life , and it's here we'll begin our search for that most elusive of wild creatures the wolf.Read more. . .