Day Four

Quieter Pace

Wed 21st April

After the early morning dog walk it was a boys shopping trip .... for a car! With gas (sorry petrol) at 97p per litre should I go the petrol-head route, or something more modest?  Vancouver has car dealership malls - a bit like regular shopping malls, but cars.  A very convenient way of buying a set of wheels.  Yesterday we test drove a VW Atlas.  Nice car, solid ride but not great on reliability.  Also went looking for a Toyota 4Runner, but it had been sold before we got there.  It's amazing how long it takes to shop for cars!

After a late lunch we went for a walk up Lynn Creek a five minute car ride away.

In the UK, my greatest fear when taking Jack out picking up on a shoot, or alongside me as a peg-dog, was him running in to Charlie Rowland's cover crop at Bowden Farm before the drive had been through it.  Jack has an amazing nose and can smell game birds from 100 yards and will sniff them out.  Gun dogs dashing in to the wrong cover crop is just not done!

Not only can Jack smell game birds at 100 yards, he can also smell and hear water.  He will make a bee-line for anything he can paddle/swim/play-in/drink or generally romp around in.

Walking up the Sea-to-Sky Trail, alongside Lynn Creek, the path got further away from the water and the drop got steeper.   That did not stop Jack want to explore every route down to the water.  There is no doubt he is developing a mountain-goat capability, but sometimes his enthusiasm exceeds his ability.  Some nervous moments as we climbed the trail.    He had the odd fall, or got taken in to the current of the creek.  Sadly we have no images or video of these events as we were too busy trying to get jack out of his latest predicament!  











 


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