Day 43, Thursday, August 4, Ocean Falls
Today Ute and I walked over to the townsite of Martin. Just around the corner and down the road from Ocean Falls. Although it has a bigger population than Ocean Falls, there must be at least 6 or 7 houses, it still appears pretty deserted. At one time they had a little store, it's gone now, but we did run into a local lady who grew up in Ocean Falls and she had lots of stories to tell about growing up here, watching the town grow, then sadly watching it fade away.
After out walk to Martin we headed back to the boat dock and stopped by to talk to an old fellow who also know some of the history and he gave us a tour of his collection of relics. He had the old tin signs from the local Martin Inn hotel as well as some of the room keys, he was kind enough to give me a souvenir.. one of the old room keys. Very cool!
I know why they call themselves the 'rain people', with the tall mountains surrounding this tiny bay no sun ever shines here!
We did do some crabbing and both Ben and Ute caught some nice big crabs. Yum!
Tomorrow we head back to Shearwater for more fishing. Just a few more weeks and we will be heading for home.
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