Category: Another country
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Tofino and bears
Tofino is on the west coast of Vancouver Island on a one way in, one way out road. My family often camps there and I have never been. It was on the list for this trip. My cousin Carolyn offered to drive us and it was going to be a long day with a bear…
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Butchart Gardens
In every google search of what a person should do when on Vancouver Island Butchart Gardens makes the list. I really don’t have much commentary about gardens or flowers, I have a brown thumb and the plants in my home garden survive under their own ambition to remain alive. What I can say about flowers,…
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Seas, skies and completely spoiled
As a rule, generally, we don’t say no when a fishing trip is offered but when a cousin offers to take you on his commercial fishing boat chasing lingcod there is no hesitation. Yes please, 100 times over even if it meant a 3am start to the day. Mother, brother, Aunty and husband all changed…
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Quads in the mountain
From base camp the extended family have all reached out to see what we are doing and offer suggestions of activities we might do together. My cousin Mel offered to take us quading in the mountains. We have spent 4 days just hanging out with the kids and it has been really nice. A chance…
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Oh brother
Base camp on Vancouver Island is at my favourite brother’s place in Naniamo. This part of the Canadian adventure is all about getting to know Ricky’s partner, my nephews and niece. Also to spend as much time with brother dear as possible in between his work and renovating their home. Ricky and his partner have…
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Where sarcasm lives
My entire childhood I was teased. It’s a family thing. I didn’t always appreciate it and certainly had to deal with it because it was the family way. We are a family of smart asses, pushing each other’s buttons and seeing who would bite back or return the jibe with a better come back. We…
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1,000 Islands
1,000 seems alot right? It is actually a group of 1,864 Islands in the St Lawrence River that flows out of Lake Ontario. The are split between being owned by USA and Canada. They agreed to split evenly by area, Canada has more and USA has the biggest (of course 🙄). We booked our accommodation…
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Frenchland and back
With no offence intended to the French or the French Canadians, we were determined to experience another country within a country. We left the family and headed north around the tip of Lake Simcoe. We were told to follow the 7 highway east towards Ottawa for the prettiest route and in the hopes of spotting…
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Family is the reason
Nothing is more important than family. That is how we were raised and that is how we raised our kids. My family is everything. There is the ‘deep down maternal mother bear’ when I think about my daughters and clearly they are #1. But when I am in Canada there is some other ancestral genetic…
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Niagara Falls
Every day so far Wayne has envisaged sleeping in. Every day I set the alarm 1 hr earlier than he thinks he will want to wake up and every day we don’t need an alarm. We woke from our Hamilton stay with a slight headache but not enough to squash the excitement of it being…
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