Hot Springs Cove

Hot Springs Cove (49˚22'00" 126˚16'00" Just W of entrance to Sydney Inlet, NW of Flores I and Tofino, Clayoquot Sd, W side of Vancouver I). The Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation name for the hot springs, which form a group of six pools near the E entrance to the cove, was Mok-seh-kla-chuck, or “smoking water,” according to W coast historian George Nicholson. In 1930 a former tugboater named Ivan Clarke set up a store just N of the springs to service the salmon trollers who congregated in the...

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