i FELT LIKE i GOT TO GO ALONG WITHOUT all the hiking!!! Lazy me. Cute pic of Robin. Summer is about over and I will miss it. I love the long days. Now you are home again, we'll have to talk about what was best about your trip!!!
Dee
San Juan or Juan de Fuca? Howdy, interesting pix! I used Google Maps to look for Botanical Beach, bc and wound up zeroing in on Juan de Fuca Provincial Park near Port Renfrew. Is that "the right one"? Cheers. TM
almost the end? I cracked up when you said you didn't even look at Lake Louise.........wondered if that was akin to "doing the Louvre" in about an hour when we were teenagers? Sensory overload? Beauty fatigue? These pictures were so interesting. I would like to see those ocher pits (and paint my face). You and I agree on the water we like best -- I think it's in our bones. I have a feeling this sojourn is coming to an end, and I wish it wasn't. Have come to depend on this beauty...........both the photos and the words.
your travels Am so enjoying your photos and commentary of this travel blog, Cindy. The goat/sheep looks like one of our Baldy Nelson Big Horns. Molly looks better. Has her hot spot healed?
I'm a bit better, too.
When will you be home? Love,
Maurya
Kamloops Hi Cindy--I spent a night in a motel in Kamloops about 30 years ago. There was a full moon and we were on the 2nd story of the motel sitting on a balcony facing south. It was beautiful. That area is beautiful--Frazier River isn't it??
Seems to me that was the river that ran along the highway. There were lots of bears in Jasper and we went to the lake to the east of Jasper (I think) and took a boat ride on it.
Thanks for your pictures and comments. It's been fun!
Dee
I'm glad you got out of the rain. Beautiful photos. I envy you. Not much going on here, but John and I saw Julie and Julia yesterday and loved it. An absolute delight and Meryl Streep is a wonder. Walking across the court to the Claremont Laemmle, we stopped to talk to women profs at Scripps, eating lunch. One had seen the movie twice and the other had gone to the first showing of the first day when it was so crowded she had to sit in the 3rd row. At Curves that's almost all the ladies talk about. (And how can they chatter on like that? I haven't enough breath or concentration to exercise AND talk at the same time.)
The last few days it hasn't hit 90 and down in the low 60s at night. Lovely for this time of year. Keep on having fun.
water water water Cindy, thanks for these gorgeous water pictures.................of many different colors! I love the aqua water most of all.......it seems like the "real"water. Makes me think of the streams out of Cordova. I laughed out loud at your postings on Canada and Canadians today, and am glad to be reading your writing again. Especially because I have a summer cold, and while I'm not sick sick, I'm all stuffy and achy...............so the Internet is my company, and your blog is the most interesting thing out there!
I do know the Frazer River Valley country a litle bit, though not as thoroughly or as up close as you, but from many years back. Molly doesn't seem to mind the luxury of Whistler's bed though!
Yesterday we saw the documentary The Cove about a cove in Japan where they slaughter dolphin. Horrifying, brilliantly done, and deeply sad. The guy who trained the dolphins for Flipper is the heart and soul of the film.
How beautiful!!! Especially the mountains East of Whistler. I'd hear of the town many times, glad I don't have to go there now because if it's too rich for your blood, Cindy, it's too rich for mine.
Ah, Northwest rain I sympathize. I remember a really disasterous camping trip on the Little Susitna River in Alaska when the second day it started raining and never stopped and the tent leaked like mad and the river rose and rose, washing equipment away. It was my mom, my brothers and I and two friends of my brothers. All in one tent since the other one was just a sieve.
It's sounds beautiful though and you are coping like a trooper. Cool your folks were in the same motel.
John had his 62nd birthday yesterday which was cool and Crystal called for along chat. More later. Love, Fran
clear water! Cindy, I have been loving the pictures of water, from Botany Bay to Little Qualicum Falls..............it's so lovely clear!! The waters in the Midwest tend to be brown (they say from minerals), but I always think they're just dirty. And thanks for the gorgeous photos! (And p.s., you had me scratching my head, too, with the Rainier reference.)
What mountain? Mom, after I wrote that blog I thought about whether that mt was Rainier or not. It didn't look like Rainier, and then I remembered Baker. I decided that I had made an error on my blog. But I thought, who will know the difference? My answer: Mom will know the difference. And she will correct me. Way to go Mom!
I am in Comox now and very tired. I will try to update my blog!
Love, Cindy
What mountain? The mountain seen in the photo titled San Juan Island and Mt. Rainier is really Mt. Baker. Mt. Baker sits just south of the Canadian border in the state of Washington.
I am Molly's friend and mistress, travelling with her to Canada next week. She's a 12-year-old shepherd-retriever-coyote mix. I'm a 59-year-old teacher. Soon we will be on our way.... full info
Fran
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Lovely! Welcome home. Sorry about the heat. At least you are far from the fire. Fran