Expedition Canada

Two Years in Canada  Monday April 17th T087 Harbeson  A stroll down to the beach on Wednesday evening was rewarded with the sighting of a pod of Orca, about 4-6 of them, splashing around about 200-400m off the beach.  It is the first time in nearly two years on the Coast that we have seen Orca from this beach.  A year ago Fred had spotted a pod just 50m off-shore at Hopkin's Landing beach when we lived in Langdale, we have spotted them from afar on one of our ferry rides a year or two back and I've seen them from a distance when out sailing, but never this close and this active!   You can just see the water spout from the smaller whale They had been seen earlier during the day further up the Coast and two were identified as T087 Harbeson and  T06A5  Indy, but what species of Orca? According to a website that covers Salish Sea Orcas  there are only about 73 Southern Orca remaining in the Salish Sea in three distinct pods, JPod, KPod and LPod and are named according to their pod.

Bob Woodward; the Seb Connection Sunday April 9th  Sunset over Van Island rarely disappoints What is he on about you might ask?  Well, ever since I first saw the movie 'All the President's Men', and later read the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, I have followed Bob Woodward's writing.  Both his political analysis in the Washington Post and his books. I read his three recent books on Trump, 'Fear', 'Rage' and 'Peril' .   Seb, during his Easter visit was close to devouring 'Peril', literally. I thought it important he developed his breadth of reading material!  I snapped a picture which was posted to Instagram with the appropriate hashtags, including #bobwoodward. One of the 'likes' was from a name I didn't recognise.  A quick Google search later and it appears that it was Bob Woodward's wife; columnist and writer Elsa Walsh.  So young Seb has made it into the Woodward household.  The surprising connections of socia