Expedition Canada

Orca Alley Tue Sept 19th Local Orca passing through - they came back in the other direction the following morning After the departure of the mountain bike crowd, we had a week with Ros before she and the expensive mountain bike she won at Whistler's 2022 Crankworx, returned to NZ.  Crankworx Whistler is one of the World's leading mountain biking competitions and she was one of the volunteers working the event in 2022.   Did you know some mountain bikes now come with electronic gear change and seat height controls!  Quite why anybody would want to spend north of $15k (Ca) on a mountain bike that is going to be thrown down a hill is beyond me. The Wednesday before Ros went back out to NZ, we managed to get out for an afternoon's sail on one of the club boats with one of my sailing mates and his wife. We had a gentle potter up West Howe Sound towards Langdale in a light breeze.   It is a beautiful setting for a sail with the mountains on the Sunshine Coast, Ke...

Covid Sat Sep 2nd Fall has arrived with a bang.  Actually several of them as we had a thunderstorm overnight on August 28th that rumbled on from late evening on Vancouver Island before moving across the Salish Sea and echoing around the mountains and lighting up the Coast.   Not only did we enjoy a rather noisy thunderstorm (Jack was on our bed in seconds - a place he is usually denied access to), but it started a couple of forest fires on opposite sides of the Sechelt inlet.  One was extinguished reasonably quickly, the other is now under control .  The 29c Summer dropped to 19c Fall overnight and it has remained cool since.  Despite the rain, water use has now been restricted to Level 3 (Acute), further limiting the times for watering gardens, fruit and veg. By coincidence I stumbled across a video which talks about Canada having 20% of the world's fresh water and more lakes than the rest of the world.  I have not been able to validate the data, but...