VANCOUVER ISLAND 2018

SUSAN AND NORMAN
ON VANCOUVER ISLAND 2018


 
Seymour Narrows, where Ripple Rock used to lurk just below the surface, until it was blasted away in 1958. No mean feat.

Quick (but intriguing) tale of the Plot against Ripple Rock
NFB Documentary on the Explosion of Ripple Rock (7:17 min)
If you've got lots of time, here's the 27 minute documentary presented by (get this....) the Dupont of Canada Explosives Department
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the Homeward trail



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The Rogers Boys on the trail.



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Back in Victoria. Doshu and I take a visit to Emily Carr's house on Government Street.



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the dining room



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the verandah



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The front hall. The Carr sisters are all at home.



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Around the house....



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...and in the window.



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On our last day, Norman, Doshu and I take an urban paddle through Portage Inlet and up the Colquitz River. It goes on and on, past backyards and nature trails.



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A nice little dock....



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More wildlife on the river.



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This would be my ideal little working retreat.



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Back downtown, at the Royal BC Museum, we find Indigenous carvers working on a major totem pole project.



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It will be finished soon.

And so is our trip.



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One last thing. While I was in Campbell River, I found this book at Mom's Used Book Store. I am just loving it. 34 women, all about my age, and their adventures up on Haida Gwaii and Prince Rupert in the 1970s.



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