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Lake Rescue
Read more: Lake RescueNigel had been hankering to get up on Owikeno Lake. He wanted to get the lay of the water before venturing forth with his boat. His wood-work-shop pals have been planning to look for logs to process at the local mill. They have been foiled by weather. Nigel was feeling rather despondent about ever getting…
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Settling in, Developing Skills
Read more: Settling in, Developing SkillsAfter a couple of months here, Nigel has slotted in like a hand in a glove. He takes Granville for a walk along the road daily. He chats with many people during those walks. I guess you could say that he is becoming a bit of a fixture. On some of those walks his destination…
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Getting to Wuikinuxv
Read more: Getting to WuikinuxvFlight: expected date 16 August. After a flight delay of a day plus several hours, the mist and rain lifted enough for the Grumman Goose, an amphibious plane, to fly us to Wuikinuxv on 17 August. Us was OrangePekoe the cat, one of my soon-to-be neighbours, and me. The plane was chock-a-block with cargo which…
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Wuikinuxv – an overview
Read more: Wuikinuxv – an overviewIn mid-August we arrived in Wuikinuxv. It was a staggered arrival – me first with OrangePekoe, on a very rainy day. A week or so later Nigel arrived with Granville. Our vehicle and the furniture we purchased came on the barge a week after we arrived. Our accommodation was not ready until mid-September. We moved…
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Camping Sites – Vancouver Island
Read more: Camping Sites – Vancouver IslandCampsite # 19 Thunderbird Campground, Campbell River, BC Thunderbird Campground is on a narrow strip of land between Campbell River 11 and the Discovery Passage. It is, as commercial campgrounds always are, congested, with a variety of trailer makes and models parked in two rows. Our campsite backed onto the Campbell River 11, a tributary…
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Beautiful BC – many landscapes
Read more: Beautiful BC – many landscapesBritish Columbia’s iconic landscapes, the ones that feature in advertisements and textbooks, are views of mountains, perhaps with water adjacent to the mountains. We discovered during our drive through this province that there are several quite distinct landscapes. Our route would take us from Kootenay through the South Central Interior to the Lower Mainland. We…
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Beautiful BC – Variegated Glory
Read more: Beautiful BC – Variegated GloryBeautiful BC – a slogan for this province for decades. It is a fitting slogan, because the province is indeed beautiful. Stunningly so. It’s an overwhelming visual experience, quite frankly. There is no pause to blink and relax; it’s one visual sensation after another. Exhausting, positively exhausting. Gloriously exhausting. We camped for a couple of…
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Beautiful BC – Kicking Horse Pass
Read more: Beautiful BC – Kicking Horse PassKicking Horse Pass spans the border between Alberta and British Columbia. Scouted and surveyed by the Palliser Expedition in 1858-1859. At that time the Yellowhead Pass was used to travel over the Rocky Mountains. The objective of the expedition and survey was to explore and map western Canada, to find areas for settlement and to…
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A glance at Alberta
Read more: A glance at AlbertaWe travelled quickly through Alberta. We had hoped to make a couple of stops visiting family and friends, but our various schedules did not match, so we completed this portion of the trip at a fast clip. It was just fine, because initially we found what seemed a bleak and barren land. There was grassland,…
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Scarcely Discovering Saskatchewan – R&R southern African style
Read more: Scarcely Discovering Saskatchewan – R&R southern African styleThe road to a friend always creates a light-some, positive atmosphere in the vehicle. A smile hovered around serious-driver Nigel’s mouth. He, and I, were enjoying the scenery – the brightly coloured fields of grain, the magnificently expansive sky, the view to a horizon kilometres away – which, possibly because we were driving to visit…
