Nitinate Lake
The Nitinat Lake is a 23 km long and up to 1.2 km wide fjord on the west coast of Vancouver Iceland . It is part of the West Coast Trail Unit of the Pacific Rim National Park . The lake is connected to the Pacific by the Nitinat Narrows , a 3 km long and only 2.5 m deep channel at low tide .
The lake can be reached via the Nitinat Main logging road , a logging road that extends to Bamfield and Port Alberni . Cowichan Lake is also accessible via Youbou and the north shore of the lake .
Ditidaht
The Ditidaht , a sub-tribe of the Nuu-chah-nulth, are closely connected to Nitinat Lake . The residential area of the Ditidaht is located at the north and east end of the lake. The main reserve is the Malachan Indian Reserve # 11 on the eastern edge of the lake, where around 120 Ditidaht live, and around 50 more elsewhere within the reserve. The total of 17 reserves cover 725.3 hectares . The trunk was formerly also called nitin seam or nitinate . The language of the ditidaht, the nitinaht , was practically extinct around 2000, but there is now a school for this language.
tourism
The lake is considered one of the ten best windsurfing areas , but is also suitable for paddling and canoeing . It is located in a jungle area (old-growth forest) of the National Park. A canoe hike leads across Nitinat, Hobiton and Tsusiat Lake (38 km, 4–5 days, less than 17 km of rowing distance).
Nitinat Lake is not far from Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park to the southwest. There you will find the Carmanah Giant , with 95 m one of the tallest Sitka spruce trees . Hitchie Creek Provincial Park (226 ha) is to the west .
The Nitinat River Hatchery is one of the largest salmon farms in the country. 350,000 Coho salmon alone and 10,000 steelheads are raised here. Also Chinooks are abundant. Roosevelt elks , black bears , cougars and wolves need not be emphasized, but the endangered Marmelalk and Keen's long-eared bat ( Myotis keenii , see mouse- eared bat ) are rare even here.
The Nitinat River Provincial Park above the Nitinat Lake crosses a primeval forest with Douglas fir and Western Hemlock ( Tsuga heterophylla , West American hemlock ).
At the lake is the Ditidaht First Nation Nitinat Lake Visitor Center .
Web links
- Nitinate Lake . In: BC Geographical Names (English)
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 53 " N , 124 ° 45 ′ 14" W.