brettmarl
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10 months ago Nitinaht Narrows
This very swift flowing tidal channel is only 30 meters wide, but it is extremely dangerous. The huge current combined with the ocean swells and a shallow bar outside the entrance has resulted in numerous boats being sunk and many lives lost over the years, the most recent being in May 2022.
The former principal Ditidaht village of Whyac (waayaa - meaning ‘high place’) was located at the entrance to the narrows and was an impressive, fortified village that was virtually impregnable against attack. It was so big that the houses were almost touching, and you could hear the neighbours talking in the house next door. Like nearby Clo-oose, Whyac was slowly abandoned as residents moved up to the current village of Balaats’adt (or Nitinaht Village) after their only link to the world, the Princess Maquinna, stopped running in 1952.
Carl Edgar Jr (of Nitinaht Wilderness Charters and the Crab Shack) was the last resident of Whyac, only relocating to Clo-oose in 1967 when his house burned down. Carl has been operating the Nitinaht Narrows ferry for most of his life, having started in 1975, so he has seen the evolution of the West Coast Trail first hand and welcomed tens of thousands of hikers from around the globe to the Ditidaht First Nations traditional territory.
Added new description to Nitinaht Narrows placename, but it's not visible in the app as NN is a camp and so it shows the camp-card content.
Need to refactor the code to handle breaking apart the 3 icons per Lance's email recommendation. This is a more complex set of changes.