The Smith River

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 Friday took us from Little River to Smith River, the current seat of the Tolowa Dee-Ni' Nation. We had hoped to get some interpretive experience of these peoples, but the pandemic has slowed the peoples' cultural outreach.

On our arrival at the Howonquet Lodge where we are staying, the clerk suggested that we go out to the mouth of the Smith River where sea lions, pelicans, and cormorants greeted us.

This is Prince Island where refugees from the 1852 massacre of the Tolowa hid out from the Americans.

These are sea lions, hard at work

More sea lions

Sharon, watching the sea lions on Prince Island

Pelicans (and friends)


A pelican on the wing

A cormorant, I think


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