Camping, kayaking with killer whales and hiking in the forests of British Columbia installed in the British author a lifelong love of the wild, which fed her writing across four books.
I don’t remember when my love of Canada began — it’s something that’s always been there, this connection to a country that feels like a second home even though I haven’t spent longer than a month there in one go. I grew up by the sea in Cornwall and planned to study marine biology and live out on the water, researching whales and sharks.
I was on an island in the middle of the Johnstone Strait, the slice of water between mainland British Columbia and Vancouver Island. It’s a magical area of the world. A narrow sea, just a couple of miles wide, it holds dozens of islands, coves and inlets, and in the summer is home to over 100 orcas, as well as whales, dolphins, eagles and bears. In my time there, I saw them all and in abundance.
At first glance, the landscape seemed impenetrable. Endless carpets of pointed trees reached right down to a thin sliver of rocky shore. It seemed there was no way in. This wilderness held its secrets close. It was a land full of myth, a story to every island, a dozen more old tales waiting in the trees. Stepping from the beach into the forest, I immediately sensed the history of the area — it felt ancient, and it was impossible not to be humbled.
Then, after some invisible signal, my guide relaxed, and we went on. For a writer who admittedly has an overactive imagination, I wondered what that animal had been, how close it had come and what it might have done for weeks after.
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