Expedition Canada

Gibsons Beckons Fri Jul 2nd Today is our last day in North Van and our hosts at the property, where we spent our first month, have been as welcoming as ever.  Jack, who got on well with the resident lady boxer, Josie, has renewed the acquaintance and has had the temerity to abscond to their upper deck and steal her soft toys.  I'm sure there are better ways to a girls heart but it seems to bring her down to ground level each time! Temperatures have returned to seasonal normal in Vancouver, though the interior is not faring so well.   The number of wildfires has increased by 228 this week. See map below.   There is a suggestion of rain Wednesday next week, but only at 40% chance at the moment. Not great prospects at the moment for dampening down the prevailing arid conditions. On the Sunshine Coast where we return on Saturday, the three month anniversary to the day and date of our arrival in Canada, watering gardens has already been restricted...

It's Hot Mon Jun 28th It was a balmy 25c as I set out on this morning's walk at 0630hrs.  That's as cool as it was going to get today.  Later afternoon temperatures are expected to hit 40c.  Not quite the  record  BC reached yesterday, or may even break again today. The walk reprised one we did when we were first released from quarantine in April.  I say we, today I was on my own.  Wimbledon has started so I shall not see Fred in the mornings for another two weeks.  If we were not 8hrs behind it would have been a larger chunk of the day! Today's forest art was on the Hyannis Trail.  There is someone around with an imaginative eye and a pocket full of pebbles.  I wonder if I will come across any others this week? The individual trails in North Van run for many kilometres but connecting trails and and crisscrossing of the main trails create a network whic h makes it possible to walk (run or ride) your distance of choice.  (See image)....