Day 51 - Eucot Bay & Nascall

Natural Hot Springs at Eucot

Empty Resort at Nascall

Gunkholing with the Granthams

Confined Hot Springs at Nascall

The kids cooling down in the ocean

Bev bucketing salt water into
the hotspring to cool it down

A calmer place we did not find

Is the boat falling over?

Well, the rain we wished for is not here, we have a smoking hot day at the hot springs....Mike the dork has put fresh water out of the hot springs pipe into the Hot springs tub and its so hot, we cannot even go into it. The bathtub has finally rusted through and is no where to be seen! A couple of black bears share the beach with us and are probably just waiting for "Human Soup". We opt to go gunkholing up to Nascall hot springs as were told that we might be able to go ashore there if we are nice!

We take the 20 minute gunkhole up to Nascall. Sad story here - back around 5 years ago, we went into Nascall looking to see if we could find the hot springs and we found a resort that was massive with a hotel looking structure and lots of nifty looking cabins. Chickens and such running around but no humans. Sadly the owner had put an airstrip in behind his property and the week or so before had crashed his plane on his airstrip and was killed. We found this out a few weeks later when we were back in Shearwater and at the time, we never did find the hot springs. The hot springs were put in a covered building and was not open to the public. This time we are lucky to meet the caretakers (Al and Sharon) and they invite us to come and have a wander around. The place is forsale and the hydro from the waterfall dam project is on hold. Were it not for the caretakers, this place too would be in ruins. Its a harsh environment up here with the winds reaching over a 100 km an hour and freezing rain storms - if someone wasn't there looking after the infrastructure, all would be falling down! The caretakers share with us that there is another natural hotspring on the ocean side that is accessible at low tide. How cool is that! We wish them well and go back for a soak in Eucot hot springs and call it an early night.