This is Jack Point, we hiked all around this on Feb 07th ..https://www.facebook.com/profile/560297692/search/?q=jack
Had a fun ferry trip. Had breakfast on board “Coastal Bennies” then found a corner to call our own to play cards
Back on land heading to Hope we hear what sounds like a gun shot or a rock hitting us. We see no evidence, something to check out when we stop.
Fuel stop. What do our eyes behold, F)&k
Oh well, what can you do except curse “F)&k dump trucks” See the mountain in the reflection
Our home for the next few days, Coquihalla Campground Site 59
May 4th – Explore Hope Day… We are closer to downtown than we knew which is fun.
A little cloudy and the Coquihalla River, steps from our site
First stop on our walking tour Canyon Glass to show them photos of our owie
Size wise it may be OK to just repair the chip, (chip has to be smaller than a loonie), but the spider cracks make it not doable. How now to arrange a windshield replacement?
Enough of this thinking stuff, off we go to explore Hope. It’s a cute little, sleepy town with lots of wood carvings, here’s a sampling
Not sure why they have a carving of Rambo…Fast forward to tomorrow when, on our walk we figure it out. Interesting 🙂
Our walk took us past Rolly’s Restaurant. BC’ers will remember how often they were in the news for their stance against vaccines, masks, etc. No, we didn’t enter.
We get in a much needed, FIRE!! The fire pit in our last Rondalyn visit was too tall to enjoy a fire
Finish the day with eating our 2nd to last made in Nanaimo, Nanaimo bar.. Delicious
We had fun spending our last Island weekend with Kyle & Megan. Dice, cards, delicious steak and Caesar salad, and fun, fun fun.
Sunday, May 1st we watched an Indy Race. An exciting race but POOP, Allan’s driver finished ahead of mine.
Monday, May 2nd our last trip to Nanaimo. Like so many others days, this one starts off with pouring rain. I’ll not miss the rain and gloomy days but will miss the many great places we visited and friends we made in the park.
We take ourselves to, of course, the waterfront. We love it there. We drive by the Petroglyph Park, stopping hadn’t work out – this time we stop.
Took all of about 8 minutes to see it, but we did.
Off to the habour front… From the highway we see a cruise ship. We haven’t heard anything about one arriving yet here it is. We walk towards the ship, no extra people – where is everyone??
Meet the “Silver Muse” Read about it here Now we know about where the people are.
A harbour front visit must include a visit to the W.E. Ricker. These are the photos of our first viewing of the Decommissioning of the Canadian Coast Guard offshore fisheries research vessel CCGS W.E Ricker, and today the last we will see.
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Will share the entire series of photos on a new post. Stay tuned….
Yet another water plane off to Vancouver, 20 minutes and you are there! We should have done that for a few day getaway. Next visit.
What’s a walk, without a reward? Non-existent… Spot Silver Muse in the background?
For at least a month, a nearby gas station, had a large felled tree, we since have learned it 260 years old being carved. We’ve never saw the carving in progress, stopped to day to see it. Simply WOW!!
We wanted to visit Dinghy Dock Pub on Protection Island. They are seasonal floating pub open Thursdays thru Sundays 11:30am – 9pm. We’re almost leaving Nanaimo so today was the day.
The ferry, is a little one not run by BC Ferries. It is a 10m ride. We took a quick walk then returned to the pub 🙂
That done, it’s time to walk the island…. Gotta love the real estate agent who secures the ProtectionIsland.ca domain name.
There are some super nice homes then there are the others. It is a little junky.
Spotted this deer, thought it was a statue then it moved. How did they get on the island?
The beach, accessible when it’s not high tide
This is the beach access that is no more
Need the mileages
Allan with “Boo’s” cousin
Wouldn’t you love a plane parked on the side of your home?
Hum, jokers on the island…
When arriving by you own vessel, you will likely enter here…
Skies over Nanaimo look a little mean
Well, that was close!
Our return ferry trip from Protection Island was interesting. There were too many people, we were there early, missing the previous ferry by 5 minutes so made it on. T
he Captain assured the remaining passengers she would be back as quickly as she could. Pulling into the Nanaimo dock, a fellow passenger says “FIRE” , smoke was beginning to billow.
The Captain asked we all quickly disembark, we were all happy too.
We felt bad for the people waiting both in Nanaimo and PI.
We hung around for a bit, the ferry wasn’t going nor did the other ferry that was in PI come. Poor stuck people, for once it wasn’t us stuck! And, we made it almost home before the rain started.
April 12, 2022 Goodbye Rondalyn! 6 long, cold, rainy, snowy, did I mention rainy but still filled with fun and many adventures months Bailey is motoring again!
First fuel! Think we both had near heart failure with the per litre price, 239.9. Had to authorize the pump 3 times to get satisfy Bailey’s thirst.
No one ever said RVing was for the faint off heart so off we go…
Oh my, we did not sign up for snow. What were we thinking heading north??
No snow on the ground here 🙂 Site 41
This is us, here
A tree welcome! It’s happy to see us!!
Just steps from the beautiful Straight of Georgia
Our first of many fires in the pavilion. You are not permitted to have fires on your site but fine to have in the pavilion and Cape Lazo supplies the wood!
April 13th our first trip to Comox. We approve!
April 14th A walk on the beach
Walk deserves rewards. Spot them ??
April 15th A little bit of a scare… Arrived at North Island Hospital at 1130a left at 555p What a day!!
All’s good even got to “duck”! No, that’s not BOB, just a close relative
Good night
April 16th – In coming, it’s a big one
April 20th Day 1 of the Snowbird practices consisted of four planes. They come to Comox every year to practice before heading to the various air shows they participate in.
April 21st Rainy, rainy day but who cares when you start the day with a delicious breakfast followed by a campfire in the Pavilion
Pesto Eggs Delish
Fire time is all the time
April 22nd This fellow got a “bird’s eye view”
So fun watching them practice and SO loud!
There they go, end of another session
April 23rd Good morning Comox!
Birds are not happy with the weather change
Here they are and there they go!
Fire time!
April 24th Meet the neighbours. Kind of quiet, love them
More birds, more fires. Snowbirds were out too, thought you saw enough of those photos, fires however never enough. 🙂
I thought the coffee pot was leaking. Would have been a cheaper fix. Always fun, not really. A leak from ????
Apr 26th First 2 photos leaving Comox, 3rd Ladysmith
For those of you following the demise of the ship today’s photos after being out of Nanaimo for 2 weeks.
Well silly me! I had this done then didn’t publish. A little late but it was fun for me to relive the end of January 🙂 February & March’s adventures are posted on my FB page so if you aren’t already a friend send me a FB request.
Jan 16th – Fun trail, we didn’t get lost for a change…
Jan 28th – Woohoo Allan WON!! Worth the Nanaimo Frosty Stepping Challenge. Much fun, and we go to parks we would not have gone to. 12 locations (all Parks within Nanaimo), 12 clues for the location. Once there had to find a QR code which gives you a word. Once you have all 12 words, unscramble them to find the correct phrase. My guess was “PARKS RECREATION AND CULTURE LAUNCH ACTIVATE 2022 WITH OUR PARTY ON JAN 1ST” we were then placed in a draw and Allan won. Woohoo. Allan is with Deborah Beck with Nanaimo Parks Recreation and Culture.
We made it to 2022. It’s not looking like it will be much better than 2021, covid wise. Let’s all hope for the best.
Poor Bailey, poor us for having to navigate the stairs! I’m concerned about chipping away as it may break something in the steps.
Melt soon!!
We are kicking around various BC destinations for when we leave here, no solid plans yet. It is always an adventure.
For now, let’s just plan today! Allan comes up with a visit to a museum Debbie told us about; Hand of Man Museum. We are not huge museum people but this one sounded interesting, and it’s open 365 days.
How can one person accumulate so much stuff!
While roaming we encountered the founder Jim Shockey. Quite the guy, he spoke of how having such a museum had been his dream since he was 10 but realized it was out of his grasp as they were poor and lived in a trailer park. This is proof, again, never give up on your dreams.
We had no idea who this is. Turns out he is “a Canadian outdoor writer, a professional big game outfitter and television producer and host for many hunting shows.Born: December 20, 1957″. He is pretty interesting.
It was a fun visit and may require a return visit.
For certain, if you are in the area this is a must see!
Things are looking up, only a dustting of snow last night not a blizzard!
Our last fire of 2021, would have wanted a real fire but it’s snowed under…. (Note: again a little post card-y-ish photo)
New Year’s Eve tradition – Chinese food. Normally Skip but that’s not available in Ladysmith so drive there. On the way into town we see several vehicles pulled over in the north bound lane… See a herd of —– not sure but a herd for sure, some standing, some laying down…
Will they still be there on the way back? Doubtful!
About 1h30m later we are on our way back home, what do our shining eyes behold?? A herd of reindeer!!! Now all laying down (think these were Santa’s back ups!)
I love living in my world (Allan is often heard saying “Your mind is a scary (by that he means interesting) place”) Turns out they are Elks.
Lesson of the day! The difference between elk and reindeer is that elk have larger antlers relative to their body size and shape, while reindeer’s antlers are always covered in velvet. Elk are mainly found in North America and eastern parts of Asia, while reindeers are mostly found in arctic and subarctic regions.
Thank you to all that read, comment and keep in touch!
Sad news… Bailey not only runs on diesel our main heat is powered by diesel. We do have electric but it is not as efficient. Bad new…. we are between 1/4 & 1/2 tank More bad news: When it reaches 1/4 the diesel burner heat shuts off. Bad news: We can’t drive to the fuel station as Bailey is snowed in. Bad news: We call several providers none of whom do mobile. GOOD NEWS: we find
$600 + dollars – we are back in business!! Thank you 4ReFuel!!
Jan 22nd. Today’s adventure
