Update One of the reasons I wrote this was to extend the experience of the nest to people who will never visit Hornby. The trip there is by no means the longest or most boring I've ever taken, and it certainly is nothing like visiting the Antarctic or something - it's just an out of the way place that happened to already have a camera in an eagle's nest in a tree as well as high speed Internet fairly close by.

People who live 3 ferry rides from a major city and 2 ferry rides from what others consider civilization do so for any number of reasons. Some of them do it because of the beauty and some do it because of the solitude.

The fact is that the Internet breaks down distance to the point where any point on the planet is less than 1 second from any other point - by wire.

The eagle nest we view could be anywhere on the planet - or at least anywhere within several hundred miles of where it actually is. Even though we know exactly where it is, it still is invisible by any means we employ other than the camera painstakingly installed when the eagles were not there.

I've given you a vicarious trip to the nest. Please respect the privacy of the island inhabitants and try to resist the urge to arrive in droves. If nothing else you'll save the locals from having to deal with more than the normal rush-minute (when the ferry arrives/departs)

On the other hand, please do visit the area. Parksville, Quallicum, Comox, Courtenay, Campbell River, Port Alberni and all the places in between (my favourite is Coombs - where they have goats on the roof of the local emporium). Fanny Bay - oysters! Lots of places and all have eagles. I spotted what has to be a 1 ton nest just North of Quallicum on the new Highway - in a tree to the West out in the middle of an open area. I was doing 110kph in a rain storm and was past before I could even think about stopping (and no turn around for miles) but I have to go back and take some pictures next time I'm there

Anyway, it is hard to put the stuff back into Pandora' s box, but at least we've tried :)