amyasleigh
Abominable Snowman
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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.
Further to this recent post of mine: I've managed to get hold of the book Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban. The island mentioned therein as a reputed sasquatch location is Hurst Island -- in fact tiny, about a square mile in size: perhaps fifty miles further north-west than Cormorant Island, and situated off the very northern extremity of Vancouver Island, more or less where open sea is met.
Raban quotes from the "mariners' guide-book", Cruising Beyond Desolation Sound by John Chappell: "One is advised against hiking to the east side of the island. Former residents have sighted a 'hairy man', and strong evidence points to the existence of a Sasquatch family on the island, perhaps centred on [names of geographical features]. Indian residents of nearby Balaklava Island have had similar experiences, and now refuse to go ashore at either place" [i.e. the named spots on Hurst Island].
As mentioned in my previous post, Raban enjoyed the hospitality of holiday-home owners on Hurst Island; but sasquatches did not feature in his conversation with them. He gives the matter only a couple of pages in the book -- it's a thing in which he takes only a glancing interest. He would seem to have an open mind regarding the sasquatch mystery, though tending rather to think of it in terms of misidentification / Native American folklore.
Assuming the presence of the creatures on Hurst Island: one can envisage them being there often, but not necessarily permanently -- maybe coming and going by swimming to / from other bodies of land; or if outside of "purely-flesh-and-blood" realms, all manner of things could be the case. I continue to find it a little odd that -- with this small and restricted area having such seemingly good, and relatively widely transmitted, credentials as a sasquatch "hotspot" -- so far as anyone seems to have heard, no enthusiast / researcher re the Bigfoot / sasquatch scene has gone to Hurst Island in the hope, at any rate, of an encounter.