Codville Lagoon Marine Provincial Park

Entrance to Codville Lagoon Marine Provincial Park 

 

The Codville Lagoon Marine Provincial Park was established in 1965 and  is a significant place for the cultural heritage of the Heiltsuk People. There was only one other boat in the park besides us and Let Freedom Ring.

We anchored in Codville on the 4th of July. It was weeks later that I learned that there is a short trail that leads to Sagar Lake, which is noted for its red sand beach and warm water swimming. Had we known, we would have definitely checked it out.

It rained all afternoon once we got there. We joined the LFR gang for a spaghetti dinner and afterwards Johnny introduced us to the "Kings in the Corner" card game. We played past  midnight - till Johnny was either so inebriated or so sleepy that he couldn't see the cards in front of him. He had seen his move and then when it came to his turn he couldn't see it any more. We dissolved into laughter watching the poor guy hopelessly searching the table top for his move.

We tried prawning here and were rewarded with 5 prawns out of the whole catch of 12 (not worth the effort!). Fortunately, we were able to use Wayne's crab puller and didn't have to pull the thing up by hand. The next day it rained until 1 pm and then off and on for the rest of the day. We couldn't find our prawn trap; it was probably underwater.

On Saturday the 6th Wayne hailed us on the VHF and told us that he had recovered our trap and pulled it for us. LFR was heading to Evan's Inlet, about 8 miles away, to fish for halibut.

 Before leaving Codville we motored around the central island and started searching for the well-concealed exit.

The exit revealed itself and we were on our way to Evans Inlet.