Nitinat Lake

The Nitinat Lake is a 23 km long and up to 1.2 km wide fjord on the west coast of Vancouver Iceland. He is part of the West Coast Trail Unit of Pacific Rim National Park. By Nitinat Narrows, a 3 km long and 2.5 m deep at low tide only channel, the lake with the Pacific is connected.

Accessible is the lake on the Nitinat Main logging road, a logging road that extends to Bamfield and Port Alberni. About Youbou and the northern shore of Lake Cowichan Lake is also accessible.

Ditidaht

With the Nitinat the Lake Ditidaht, part of the tribe Nuu -chah- nulth are intimately connected. The residential area of Ditidaht located on the north and the east end of the lake. The main reserve is the Mala Chan Indian Reserve # 11 on the eastern edge of the Nitinat Lake, where about 120 Ditidaht live about 50 more in other places within the reserve. The 17 reserves include 725.3 ha The strain was formerly called Nitinaht or Nitinat. The language of the Ditidaht, the Nitinaht, was virtually extinct by 2000, but there is now a school for that language.

Tourism

The lake is considered one of the ten best windsurfing areas, but is also suitable for paddling and the canoe. It is located in a jungle area ( old-growth forest ) of the National Parks. A canoe hike leads over Nitinat, Hobiton and Tsusiat Lake (38 km, 4-5 days to less than 17 km rowing course ).

From Nitinat Lake it's not far to the Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park in the southwest. There you find the Carmanah Giant, at 95 meters, one of the highest Sitka spruce at all. In the West, the Hitchie Creek Provincial Park is (226 ha).

The Nitinat River Hatchery is one of the largest salmon farms in the country. Alone, 350,000 coho salmon, to 10,000 steelhead are reared here. Also Chinook is abundant. Roosevelt Elk, Black Bears, Cougars and Wolves need not be emphasized, but the risk Marmelalk and Keen's long-eared bat ( Myotis keenii, see mouse ears) are themselves a rarity here.

The Nitinat River Provincial Park above the Nitinat Lake passing through a forest with Douglas fir and Western Hemlock ( Tsuga heterophylla, Western Hemlock ).

Lakeside is the Ditidaht First Nation Nitinat Lake Visitor Centre.