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Klemtu
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This morning we entered the Klemtu Passage which lead us to the town of Klemtu, a small village on Swindle Island. About 400 Kitasoo & Xaixais people live there and mostly rely on fish. They had a hatchery where they were hatching the fingerling salmon, keeping them for 18 months and then releasing them. Their only purpose was to ensure enough salmon returned to their streams for their food. The village was not unlike an aboriginal village with houses either abandoned or unkempt with rubbish all around. Cars were very few as they can only get in by sea or air, but there were more cars left where they dropped then operational cars. They took us to the Long House where they did some dances which were very unimaginative and then the "blanket dance" with the blanket out in front where the tourists put money. They gave us a taste of seaweed (kelp) which was OK. Then there were other "bush" plants that they use - varieties of Ginsing etc - but I didn't try. I spoke to a couple of the people and they have a school - K - 10 and one lady I spoke to worked in child care, looking after 15 children. I spoke to a man who came on board ship and he was educated in Vancouver at boarding school. They are powered by hydroelectricity. This is in the heart of The Great Bear Rainforest (Kermode or Spirit Bear - a white bear that is a sub species of the black bear) - but we haven't seen one yet. We also saw a picturesque light house. We put our clock back an hour tonight as we cross Dixon Entrance, the boundary between Alaska and Canada and enter Alaska Daylight Time.
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