Woodland

- Identify departure, regional navigation craft

on altitude at your discretion.

Hello?

- This is Masset airport on 122, Tesla seven, go ahead.

Old habits, am I right?

Thanks.

- Made by a friend, burns a little when you piss

but hell of a fine drunk.

Thanks, sweet pea.

You a regular here?

About that time.

- You going to Sportsman's Lodge too?

- Sure, kid, I'm flying you there.

So, you're the new watchman.

- No, I'm just filling in for couple of weeks.

Photographer, photojournalist.

- Fuck me, they must be desperate.

- Yeah, well, just trying to get some quick cash,

some good shots.

First time to Haida Gwaii?

Yeah.

- Man, islands at the end of the sky.

Ice age missed 'em, you know?

The legends are,

some of the strangest I ever fucking heard.

Oh and watch yourself, low salmon run this year.

Bears are hungry.

Hey, hey, hey, Kohler, woo!

Hey, ya old cocksucker!

Hey buddy!

- You gotta watch out for this guy.

Last time he had a couple of drinks he tried to fuck a deer.

- That didn't happen, Kohler, geeze.

You must be Jacob. - It's just Jake.

Call me Sparky.

Seriously?

Yeah.

There's some goodies in the back.

Oh, great, okay.

- You boys stay out of each other's bunks.

That ain't funny, Kohler.

These the only shoes you got?

What?

- What, are you a size nine, nine and a half?

Yeah, nine and a half.

Let's see what we got.

- Haida Gwaii forms a dagger-shaped archipelago

of over 150 islands.

Located 90 miles from the west coast of British Columbia

and just over 60 miles to the Alaskan Panhandle.

Haida Gwaii's first settlements date back over 13,000 years.

It's considered by some scientists the Pacific route

taken by the first humans that migrated to the Americas.

During the Ice Age, glaciers receded from Haida Gwaii

2000 years earlier than the mainland.

Nicknamed the Galapagos of the North, the islands make up

a unique biocultural zone with many ancient plants

and animals found nowhere else in the world.

Jake, time to get going!

Fuck.

Shit.

Yeah, fuck, I'm up, I'm up.

- Hang on there Sparks, I've got him on the line right now.

Oh sure, get back to me on that count by tomorrow

if you can darling, over.

- Very good, thanks, Donna, over.

Anything for you, honey buns.

I don't want you going hungry down there.

Especially with the new kid joining you.

Oh baby.

- Oh hey, you tried on those PJs I sent you?

You know they're not real silk but they sure--

- I got to get back to you tomorrow, over and out.

Hey.

Boots and everything fitting all right?

All a perfect fit.

Right, cool.

I got a lot of work to do, so.

- Welcome to Sportsman's Lodge in Quinna Sound.

Opened in 1911, originally it was called Sporter's Lodge

until she burnt to the ground, was rebuilt in 1955.

What's with the dead trees?

- We got some heavy winds this time of year,

bit of a dust up but firewood is free.

You take a shower?

Yeah, why?

With soap?

No, fucking gasoline.

- You take a shower, I recommend no soap,

nothing with perfume.

Bugs love it.

No one to impress up here anyway.

Mostly what we do this time of year is repairs,

groundskeeping, winterizing, you know.

What's this for?

I'm a photographer.

- Oh, well, you should get some real nice pictures up here.

What you do there, you cut yourself?

Heat rash jerking off.

Okay.

This here's the water tank.

We pump the water up from the well through

the chlorine system.

But when the temperature drops below zero

the pipes'll freeze.

One winter we went three weeks without running water.

And I'm not gonna let that happen again.

See?

- Hey, hey, what's that shed used for?

- It had a leak, I had to emptiy it out.

- I've been looking for a place to maybe store

some darkroom equipment.

- There's nothing pretty about it, but you wanna fix it up,

you can use it.

That'd be great.

- It's real nice to have you around.

I'm not in as good a shape as I used to be,

so having a little help this time of year is just real n

No problem.

- This here's the hardware store.

Got a few projects on the go.

Obviously we do our own building and marine repairs here.

Now, have you ever done any repair work before, Jake?

- Took a lawnmower repair class in school.

Ah, good work with that.

Whatever you say, Zippy.

- Oh, good one, the name's Sparky.

This is a genny, it's water cooled and requires

a constant top up with diesel.

And these things sometimes get loose

so you gotta check 'em out.

Oh yeah, this one's loose right here.

You wanna give it a whirl?

Come on, give that a whirl, come on, there you go.

Now easy now, damn it, you're stripping it now!

Just take it easy there, okay.

Aw damn it!

Jake, hey.

You caught me having a little puff here.

My homegrown, it helps with the hips.

Sure it does.

What do you have there?

A little tobacco and hash.

Thanks. - Yeah.

- Been out here for a while, huh?

12 seasons.

Been guiding and doing winters.

Four straight, year around.

No shit.

You ever miss the real world then?

Real world?

Come on, Jake, I have everything I need up here.

- It must get lonely, doesn't it?

Sometimes.

Had this cat that hung around.

But I ain't seen him lately.

- In that case, how often do you and Donna see each other?

You two are-- - Donna?

No, no, no, Donna, she's up in the headquarters

up in Alaska.

How about yourself, Jake?

You have a special girl back home?

Seriously, sounds like

she was wet for you though, Sprinkles.

- Hold on now, Jake, Donna's your superior and no.

I'm telling you, never even met face to face.

- So you're telling me you never busted through

those cobwebs, that's what you're telling me?

Come on, Jake.

You're getting a bit disrespectful here.

- I'm just saying, think about it.