Howard Johnson Courteneay Bc Courtenay

Sunset on the Pacific Coast (on Sept. 17th); sunrise on the Atlantic (on Sept. 19th).

While the sun will be rising by the time that we fly over Douglas Bay tomorrow morning, it will be dark when we leave for the airport & the forecast is for rain so the evening picture captures our sense of the place from which we are leaving and to which we will return.

So where did the idea for this adventure come from? (A question that both of us will ...

Today was trip number two- whale watching on a zodiac (the inflatable, ultra-fast red boats you sometimes see on the Thames). I was awake early, as per usual, and it was a beautiful day, so I decided to hike the 5 miles to the departure point on the other side of the island. I left 1 3/4 hours for it, and (stopping off at the store for an all-important blueberry danish) marched off down the road, iPod in tow. It was a lovely walk, meandering through the trees. There ...

... continued to travel with in Salt Lake City and Jackson, also visited us in Courtenay, BC.


Dale and Kim made us the famous and dedicate Australian desert: Pavlova Thanks again D and K--the Pavlova was truly a treat for us!


Working Around the House/Max’s Shop
Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada benandlindsey

... that large. The figures are something like 5 million kgs commercial, 0.5 million recreational, plus a smaller figure I forget for the indigenous catch.) Hatcheries are interesting places to visit. In Courtenay the fish are diverted into a fish ladder that leads them to the hatchery, by a low artificial jump built across the river. The fish are then impounded in pools and sorted by species and sex. This is quite a rough process, but the fish are tough, as I saw ...

... on ocean life. Learned more about whales on that short trip than on our cruise to Alaska last month!! Once on the island it was a short drive to Courtney where we spent the night with friends. They live on acreage and take in fawns who are orphaned. There were about 10 little spotted fawns all still needing to suck on a bottle. Once you've bottle fed a wild deer you can understand why their mothers are so skittish. A ...

... healed and at home during my stay. Yesterday I left Cortes, which brings me to today. This very moment, I am sitting in an internet cafe in Vancouver. In a couple of days, I will be heading to volunteer at a music festival just outside Nelson, a journey which will take around 12 hours. I'm sure there will be more adventures to be had, so check back again soon for more tails of life as a scallywag. PEACE! Clint

... and tree lined Capilano Gorge. Also it has a cool network of bridges, that are connected high between the trees,giving a chance to walk around the tree tops. A great experience. This took most of the second day. A friend of Lous had recommended a restaurant at the top of Grouse mountain (which has great views of the city,just across the water}. All excited,we called to make a reservation.But probably having experienced, badly dressed backpackers in the past ...

... beautiful people, smiling, friendly, helpful,wonderful food, it,s going to be hard to leave. We have changed hotels and now we are practically in the center of the downtown core and really close to the skytrain which we have used alot! It willtake you to all major areas and then we can continue to our destination by using one of the kamakazi death machine "tuk tuks" to finish the trip. As I get more used to putting more info on this blog,I will try to put a bunch of photos as well ...

... there's not much hope at these villages. Since Julie and I are already tense about this latest fuel shortage, I guess it seems to Emma a good time to add a bit more atmosphere. "Dad, it upsets me when you get so disappointed about my marks." Huh? Emma's lecture on how I could be more sensitive to her potential C's in French and Science continues as the needle edges down. On the one piece of highway with a posted limit of ...

... freezing in tent. Decision was made to abandon the idea of going to Jasper as it was just too cold and most campsites were being closed for the winter. The risk of not making it to the next camp site and being stuck in the wild, in the freezing cold surrounded by hungry bears sounded a bit too much of a risk. Massive descent in the cold air and bright sunshine, stopped at Field for brunch at the Truffle Pigs cafe, got some great advice from the tourist information centre about the ...