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Published: September 14th 2016
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A beautiful place for lunch
The view from the deck of the Laughing Oyster Restaurant not far from Lund We are relaxing into the peace, solitude and serenity of this place and enjoying having time to not race off somewhere to do the tourist thing. Home Exchange is great for having space to relax and the time to spend in a location to get to know what makes it tick. Lake Chelan was like that and Powell River is proving the same. It's a home away from home. In someone else's home you have everything you would have at home only it gives new places to explore. We would never have chosen to go to Lake Chelan or Powell River if it wasn't for our Exchanges.
I should mention a strange sight we saw this morning. Cruising past the house through the water between the island and the mainland were three barges following each other piled high with sawdust or wood shavings for the paper mill. They looked like floating loaves of bread. We also discovered that we have a bald eagle nest high up in a conifer right behind the house. It has a huge nest of sticks and objects which can be seen clearly from below. This is a really tall tree by our standards. Hopefully we
will get to see it again and get a photograph.
We decided that today we would go to the northern end of the road to Lund but beforehand go over the peninsula to the Laughing Oyster Restaurant for lunch. Wow, what a location this eating place has. There are lovely set tables on a covered deck overlooking the Okeover Inlet with islands and the Mainland beyond. Small fishing boats were tied up at the wharf and also pleasure boats. In front of the restaurant was a lawn and garden full of dahlias. It was a most lovely and peaceful setting. The chef was a character who had been to NZ and had anecdotes to tell especially about our roads and road signs. The meal was superb. Linds had a warm shrimp, Alaskan cod and salmon salad and I had three crumbed oysters with salad and cumin flavoured rice. Three oysters doesn't sound much but I've never had such huge oysters! Each one was a meal which accounts for the large oyster shells scattered on the beaches. The chardonnay wine was pretty good too.
We spent the rest of the afternoon meandering at Lund which is a very small
bay filled with boats, restaurants and galleries. If it were in Devon or Cornwall it would be small streets of little narrow houses perched around the harbour. It had that feel about it. The land which the road runs through to the end of the peninsula appears to be all First Nation owned and they have set up their own industries. I imagine that all First Nation people are who we thought of as Indians but there is a huge difference between those living here and those further south. Here it is nearly completely forested so they would have relied on fishing whereas further south in the US animals would have been hunted because of the vast praires.
We did a short walk around Lund which took us to a small rocky beach and a little bay. It was very beautiful and incredibly peaceful and calm. We perched on large granite rocks and absorbed the environment. It reminded me of a visit to Sweden 40 years ago where the look was similar on the southern coast.
After a drink at the old Lund Pub we headed back to Powell River to relax and read. I'm reading an excellent book called "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr which is well written and absorbing.
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