Departure Looms

Two days Left

Wed Jun 23rd

It seems hard to believe that five weeks in Garden Bay come to an end on Saturday when we return to North Vancouver for a week.

It has been an amazing few weeks and  a great base to explore the northern end of the Sunshine Coast.  The house with its large 'back yard' including a lake at the bottom and Mixal Lake only 100m away.  Nick, who has come up twice, while we have been here thinks we will miss it with Mixal on the doorstep and very limited public access to it, making it almost our own private lake. It has been extremely quiet.  We asked one of our neighbours what it's like in winter, when weekenders aren't around.  'Lovely' was her reply, though we feel it can probably be quite isolated.

Fred did the morning walk with Jack and I had a virtual gym session, which I've kept while in Canada, followed by a swim in MIxal to cool down.  

Fred watching Wimbledon Qualifying while cleaning the oven
Today some of the cleaning jobs were got out of the way, Fred indoors and me the car.  It's amazing how much sand, grit, pine needles and general detritus one medium sized spaniel can deposit in a car.  Oven, log burner and a house clean-through, will limit what we have to do on Saturday morning.

After yesterday's all-day excursion we stayed around the house and I decided to try and get some pictures of the various dragon and damsel flies that have been so prolific, but are difficult to photograph unless they settle for long enough to get the camera on them.


Four Spotted Skimmer

Common Whitetail
The large blue dragonfly evaded my attempts to catch it on camera.

The lake by the house had a lovely light on it during the late afternoon and provided an opportunity for some other shots.

Monet Comes to Canada

Reflections


A final walk down to Mixal as the light was starting to go at the end the day.  I strolled down to Rocky Point on the edge of the Camp Burley Scout Camp.  In the mornings the sun is facing you from the across the lake, in the evenings it is behind you, which gives a completely different perspective.

Still beautiful.




 



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