Sometimes just getting out into the back country with other groups is a great way to find things other wise you would never ever had located. I am a member of the local Powell River ATV Club and two times a year we get together and go on a nice ride. Usually there is between 15 to 20 qauds and 25 to 30 people and its a nice day of riding, seeing sights and enjoying the company of others, for me its also an opportunity to locate things other people know about.
Reed English and I were talking and he was telling me about a few things here and there when he mentioned “Do you know about the old boiler in St Vincent Bay where we stop and eat lunch?” me of course answers “no, what boiler?”. So the conversation goes onto well he will give me an idea where it is, probably all grown over, be hard to find, will point it out when we get there sort of thing, and Im thinking, perfect I like a challenge.
So we arrive at St Vincent Bay, this is an old landing we were at, from the depth of it I would think the early 1900’s because its narrow and short and its definitely for vehicles so its not a railway or a donkey outload. So Reed comes to me and says “Well if you want to see the boiler its about 300 yards up the road somewhere” so 300 yards I start walking, Im thinking to myself, boiler, needs water, I saw a creek, so the first creek I come to, I head down the hill and sure enough there it is.
Now Im not by any means a boiler expert, but I have seen a few over my life, this one reminds me a train boiler, but I do not think it is, Im pretty sure this came off a steamship of some sort, sitting here and nothing else around it, and really only 35 feet from shore.
So here is one more item, left behind from a bygone era rusting away, and me, well I just look at it and wonder if it came from a ship, where its was built? what ship was it on? Where did this ship come from? and How far did it travel to get too be sitting on the shores of British Columbia Canada?
Enjoy the rest of the pictures.
