Thoughts prompted, of a section of Jonathan Raban’s book Passage to Juneau (published 1999), recounting a small-boat voyage made by the author through the island-strewn coastal waters between Seattle, and Juneau (Alaska). Raban tells of, at one stage of his journey, his passing by and in fact calling at a small island (only “a very few miles by a very few miles”) from which have come over the decades, regular sasquatch / bigfoot reports. I haven’t got the book to hand, and don’t remember the name of the island; but I’m sure it is not Cormorant Island, as in the recent report referenced here. I seem to recall (perhaps wrongly) that Raban’s island is in British Columbia waters, somewhere between the northern tip of Vancouver Island, and the Alaska border.
Raban states that the officially-published mariners’ “pilot” guide / route book for the waters concerned, mentions frequent sightings of what look like sasquatches, at one particular end of the island concerned; with the "pilot" thus speculating, possibly a family group? and its cautioning, re folk on boats landing there. Raban tells also, of there being people’s summer homes at the opposite end of the island. In fact, he landed at that end, and spent a night with a family holidaying in their summer home. He relates that the folk did not bring up the subject of ‘squatches; and since their small children were present, he did not raise the subject, not wanting to risk scaring the kids.
One might think, a propos bigfoot-questing: that the indications about the creature’s possible presence on this island – in something as sober and non-fanciful as a marine pilot book – might point to a possibly good spot for interested investigators to go and take a look. However, nothing has come my way in bigfoot-related stuff on the Net, telling of anyone trying to do so. I, at any rate, cannot but feel that there are a number of strange aspects to “Bigfootery” in North America – one being, that it could be suspected that bigfoot “hunters / researchers”, in actual fact do not want to find their quarry and lay the mystery to rest.