Story by Mark Hume with Photography by Mike Gage The Salmon River on Vancouver Island, rises as snow melt in Strathcona Provincial Park, and runs more than 80 kilometres before it hits the ocean, near the small town of Sayward. With the headwaters protected by the oldest park in British...

Commentary by Mark Hume The sea is ice blue. The sea is green. Light falls on the water through storm clouds turning it as gray as steel. Waves hit the shore and when the water runs back into itself, beach stones rattle and jump. A bright orange crab carapace, shucked in a growth spurt, spins...