Beach Walks

Our pool is closed M, W and Friday mornings for cleaning, so I walk those days. I now have my free parking pass for W Rock so I've been meeting friends and my sister Marg and loving the salt air as we walk along the promenade. There are some pretty California poppies along the tracks, butterfly bushes and wildflowers.

Electic Car and Beautiful Bolers

It's always fun to see something different coming around. This electric car from Seattle comes in here once in a while. He drives up to Whistler for the day and has to stop in here to plug in to continue back home. He's got an electrical plug coming out of the car to the box.
This little blue Boler and matching vintage car were here overnight. Kathy and Bill had run into 3 of them up at Wallamachin, out of Kamloops. Apparently they all belong to the same Boler club.

Back to the Usual routine

Back to our regular life in the campground. As I walk down O Ave., I enjoy many different sights. One old cottage is covered with clematis and all the flowers in the gardens are lovely. The U.S. of A. are really clearing their side of the ditch.

Back Home

I had a lovely trip on the ferry, a bit cloudy at first then clearing to a sunny day. we were amused by a boater swerving back and forth, cutting our wake.
Ron and I stopped in Horseshoe Bay and had fish and chips at Trolls sitting outside looking at the ocean.

Bonnybrook Beach

We started our leisurely morning off with a David Air Pancake. Our neighbour, David Aerye, taught Suzanne how to make these when she was a kid, and I didn't know for 20 years that they'd named them after him and the spelling was wrong. It is baked in the oven where it puffs way up and it sprinkled with lemon juice and icing sugar. Quite a treat.
We picked up fish and chips and took them to the beach for lunch. It was a great sunny day, good for jumping waves and lots of fun.
I sent S and J out for dinner for their 14th wedding anniversary.

Smitty's Granfondo Pancake Breakfast

We were down at Smitty's Oyster House by 8 a.m. for Jame's fund-raising breakfast. This place has delicious food for lunch and dinner and opened and donated this pancake breakfast to James to raise money for the B.C. Lung Association and $1200.00 was raised. My job was to take the tickets for the door prizes.









Our next item was to go to the Strawberry tea at St. Bart's Church. It was delightful and fun with the three girls.
We went to a lovely family gathering at 4, about 20 families. these folks do this every year and many friends bring tents and stay over. the kids had a ball with the trampoline, inflatable bouncy castle and best of all - throwing water balloons at their dads.

A Busy Day

We went up to Sechelt for the kids final swimming day after 2 weeks of lessons. I see such a difference in their swimming. Hana was swimming the 25m lengths with her class and Lexi finally puts her head in the water and swims forward.
Hana is into backgammon now.

Down to Gibsons

We finished up our little beach holiday with a quick breakfast before Ch and B headed for the ferry. Liz and I took a long walk down the beach in the other direction. After our last beachfront lunch, Ron and I headed down to Gibsons to S and J's.
Friends came for BBQ and we had lots of laughs together.

Up to Smuggler's Cove and Madeira Park

We drove into Smuggler's Cove today where Chinese immigrants were once hidden enroute to being smuggled into the U.S., and rum was smuggled during Prohibition. There is a beautiful cove in a marine park and then we went to Madiera Park a small village in this area known as the Venice of the North. We drove through the Painted Resort a new development where a deer was nibbling on the new landscaping. We enjoyed dinner on the beach before the sunset.

A Beach Day

We went for a walk along the beach, past Gordon Campbell's house to Cooper's Green, a fabulous picnic site with community hall and one of the great dive sites of the world. We saw jellyfish and starfish and I found some pretty beach glass.
There were very interesting cottages decorated with beach finds, among the brand new beauties.
The crib board came out and we had lots of fun with cards and games. I just loved eating our meals on the beachfront.

Off to Halfmoon Bay

We met Chuck and Barb at the ferry in Horseshoe Bay. We had the usual visit in the parking lot in beautiful sunshine and then drove up to Liz' where we sat on the porch overlooking the ocean. Halfmoon Bay has a Heritage General Store, built in 1938 with the original wood floors. There's a government wharf and Redroofs Road was named for a group of red roofed cottages in the early 20th century. This area has a sweeping curve of shoreline backed by towering ceders, scattered sandy beaches and rugged cliffs. The trails wind through a gently sloped forested walkway.

With the Grandkids

Josh and his blue jean lap quilt I made for him.
We're with the grandkids today as mom and dad are off on a 4 day holiday. Two enjoyed the pool including squirt guns, an age old toy. We had a great time playing Uno outside, a good game for ages 7 - 16 and above.

Off to the U.S.A.

When we crossed the border, we got a kick out of the fake fir bough fence outside the duty free store.
We popped down to Bellingham to Costso for gas at $2.81.9/gal and went to Billy Hale's for lunch. This is a delightful old memorabilia place, complete with a electric train running around above your head. It even had a Canadian Pacific Engine.
We left and saw J and CJ's car in the parking lot, so went back in and visited with them. We stopped at Chuck and Barb's on the way home and joined them and 3 guests for a marguaritas, so it turned out to be another great day.