ood that markedthe tide’s limit and wondering about the woods and hills that climbed away from the shore… They were in a different world at once. The shores of the lagoon were sandy and reeds grew along the edge. (Haig-Brown 84)When Don and Tubby leave the boat for the first time Tubby begins to sense Don’s restlessness, and his need to explore. They come across “an old cabin rotting back into the moss and dampness of the forest” (Haig-Brown 85), and conclude it mist have been that of a hand trapper, showing that this area along the coast has more resources than just fishing. Don gets a personal experience of the forestry when he is forced to find a new cedar pole after breaking one of his own. There was the smell of woods in it, of wet earth soft under-foot, the brush of leaves and branches against clothing, … he could feel the woods about him … he found a thicket of tall straight poles A mountain climbed steeply up from the salt water, through three thousand feet or more of green timber to scrub and bare rock. From the water’s edge a red gash cut back through the green for several hundred feet and Don knew handloggers had worked there.(Haig-Brown 144-146)As Don explores the surrounding coastal timberlines we get a better perception of the area. The physical landscape seems very believable because “On the moist west slope of the Coast Mountains it is the amount of snow that governs the upper limit of tree growth to around 1650 meters, the lowest treeline in BC” (Cannings 8). And as Don continues his trek up the mountainside he “came into standing timber. It was small stuff, spaced out and hung with branches, split by bluffs and little slides…As he climbed, the timber became sparser, the bluffs steeper and more numerous” (Haig-Brown 148). So as Don climbed higher up the slope he rose “above the limit of the conifers, eventually giving way to the treele...
