From Sweats to Sweat

What a treat to have my laptop open on my own desk and to be sitting in my good, old back-friendly chair. We got in late last night, but I was too stunned to do anything but hie to bed. But that was after a visit with the kids and the dear Smudge who was [...]

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From Sea to Sky

It’s over! The trip is done. When this is published, we will be on our way home although perhaps not in the SKY yet.
We crossed the SEA by ferry from the island back to Vancouver on Friday evening and snapped the following photos. Since then, we have been done with sightseeing, preferring to hang with [...]

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Flowers of Butchart

Cuppa has posted or will post a blog about the Butchart (BOO-shart) Gardens, but we have a bunch more photos that I’d like to share. While it’s tempting to sometimes think, Gardens Sharmins, this is a most wonderful, world class site that is definitely worth the price of admission (which ain’t cheap btw). Although I’ve [...]

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Butchart Gardens

Well folks, these two weary travelers are back in Vancouver after their adventure on the Island, and are preparing to jet home tomorrow. Yahoo! Today will be one of packing, preparing and saying good bye. Not Yahoo! We have had such a wonderful visit with the girls and it will sure tug at [...]

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Good Food, Bad Food

In the previous post, I briefly described the first part our drive from Pacific Rim National Park to Victoria: the part from Tofino to Cathedral Grove near Port Alberni. But I missed the above picture of Cuppa in the Grove; I like it and wanted to include it somewhere, so there you have it.
To continue: [...]

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Raining in the Rainforest

What with a lack of internet access and a lot of moving about, we’re a little behind our posting times lately, so this post takes us back to Thursday morning.
On Wednesday, we couldn’t quite make up our minds about what to do: stay in Tofino or drive, eventually to Victoria. Once we got up and [...]

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Pacific Rim National Park

I posted about yesterday morning already but not about the afternoon, so here we go — the condensed version, I hope … and you hope too, no doubt.
Tofino is on the northern edge of the Pacific Rim National Park which is part of the UNESCO Clayoquot Sound World Heritage site. Phew! I hope I got [...]

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Tofino Morning

As promised there was cloud and rain this morning, but not too much rain (a little drizzle) although the ground was certainly wet when we woke up. The Schooner Restaurant provided us with a great breakfast — very tasty hash browns and French toast (made from sourdough bread). The inside actually featured the hull of [...]

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In Tofino

We are quite a distance from Vancouver tonight. This morning we drove to Horseshoe Bay and took the ferry to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. From there we drove about four hours to Tofino. For the first day since we’ve been here, the sun came out and more or less stayed out although we worried over [...]

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A Touching Father’s Day

What with the weather and all, we continued to lie low on Sunday, Father’s Day, but it was a fine day. The girls surprised me with a Father’s Day Hat Dance. In fact, I didn’t know what the heck they were doing at first, but the point was to present me with Father’s Day gifts, [...]

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