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[Mike Cleven]

>From: Pass/Kishkan/High Ground Press <high_ground at SUNSHINE.NET>
>Reply-To: Pass/Kishkan/High Ground Press <high_ground at SUNSHINE.NET>
>To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:54:18 -0800
>
>The Skookumchuck stuff is interesting! And why shouldn't a place of strong
>waters also be a teaching place? I accompanied my middle child's grade 11
>biology class from Pender Harbour High School on their field trip yesterday
>to Skookumchuck Narrows (called, I think, KLAY'-KO by the Sechelts) at low
>tide. It's a powerful place, the waters of Sechelt Inlet meeting the waters
>of Jervis Inlet. The kids explored the tide pools and identified a host of
>animals from Gumboot Chitons to urchins to whelks. I talked to them a
>little
>about traditional plant use -- the Sechelts used bull kelp, as did many
>other coastal peoples, for oil vessels, for instance, and the rocks at low
>tide were covered in red algae, dried and used as a confection or as a
>condiment with shell fish and grease. It was tasty eaten as is off the warm
>rocks, too.

Yum.  Have to try it sometime; not in Burrard Inlet or Howe Sound, though
(industrial waters near Vancouver-Squamish).

I remember being out at Long Beach once as a starving young traveller; I
harvested some limpets off the rocks in a quest for nature-food (didn't see
any chitons or abalone, although I didn't know how to look) and tried to
boil them; apparently I didn't boil them enough; small as they were a few
decided that my esophagus was a nice place to clamp on to, even though they
weren't in their shells anymore.  Eventually they dissolved or were digested
or whatever, but it was the damnedest feeling for a day or so....

MC
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