Month: April 2005

Sara

My cousin Sara. She and Craig came around to the motorhome, parked in west Bay Victoria for a curry night. She looks goofy in that hat but she insists on wearing all the time everywhere she goes. what a loony ! ;o)

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Sara’s husband Craig

Craig eats for Canada and drinks in their Olympic team. I went out with him once to play pool and still had a hangover 3 days later.

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The first bear we saw.

Spotted this on the way to port renfrew Marina, from a rickety looking bridge over a creek.

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Mark cooking and eating crabs fresh.

We had caught our own crabs but someone gave me these two. The first time I ever ate fresh crab, and I cooked it myself.

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Some thoughts I’d forgotten to mention along the way. We were travelling along the road to Gold River when Barney mentioned that the toilet was smelling. An instant later the whole RV stank, as if the toilet had exploded and made the air inside the vehicle almost unbreathable.As I looked for somewhere to pull over…

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The crab we caught

Barney caught this one using the homemade crab line that uses a nut for a weight and a spring clip to hold the bait which was a chicken leg. Later we caught 4 in one haul and they scurried about the dock. They were big enough to eat but we dont know how to cook…

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My homemade antenna

I needed the antenna again to connect here. I dont know whose network it is but it is super fast 11Mbps. I saw how to make it at http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/

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Sooke

This is the most beautiful bay we have camped in so far. A lovely place and the weather is fantastic. Those mountains in the background with snow on the tops are in the US.

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My homemade antenna

In Victoria, which is the best city we have visited so far, I needed a wireless connection but all the networks at the RV park were too weak. I made this antenna from a chinese wok skimmer, a bent strip of wood and a usb wifi dongle. It increases the signal by about 50% but…

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Bamberton before disaster struck.

Wendy’s fire. She had much more success with the fire than me. Im following Ray Mears advice and it doesnt work. She beat me at crazy golf too, the bandit!

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Bamberton before disaster struck.

Salmon steaks, would have been nice if we had eaten them.

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We visited the cottage rental business today. 4 cottages and a house are in place and room for 4 more cabins/cottages. It was nice and almost exactly what we are looking for but at $1.5M it is way overpriced, which is a shame. www.pointwestcottages.com

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I dont put all the pictures in this website and store the others at flickr.com. To see the rest as a slide show visithttp://www.flickr.com/photos/93707000@N00/show/

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We are on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Ucluelet. this place is great, it has just the right mix of touristy stuff and actual industry based on fishing and logging.Tomorrow we are looking at this business which is for sale for $CAN 1.5Mwww.pointwestcottages.com/which is expensive but has a substantial income with it we…

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Ucluelet

The boys spotted a lodge built by a Sasquatch on the beach.

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Ucluelet

A ‘thunderbird’ atop a tree.

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Ucluelet

Camping on the ocean front in Ucluelet. Watching the seals and sea otters pop up. This place is bliss, it has an interesting location, industries and the town is friendly. I want to live here.

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Parkesville Mini Golf and RV park.

We spent $25 to camp, which included firewood as well as the usual hook-up stuff of electricity, water, cable tv, sewer etc. We spent $45 playing golf and riding on some bumper boats, which were like dodgems in a swimming pool, but they also had a powerfull water spray so you could soak the others.

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Parkesville Mini Golf and RV park.

We stayed in the grounds of a castle haha! We were driving past and the kids demanded we stay here. Actually it was fantastic and had a great view of the ocean although we had to pay $1 extra for it. We were the only customers here, although the golf course was busy.

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Are Canadians friendly? Let me describe what happened to us yesterday on 3 occasions. 1. We bought some stuff in a dollar store in Nanaimo, and when paying we got into a discussion with the assistant and described what we were doing etc. She was genuinely interested, wished us all the best and asked us…

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We stayed at Butlins Mexico

The resort was all inclusive and we met with my parents as well as all the Canadian relations. It was like being on a cruise ship run by an american Butlins, with stacks of eating and drinking but none of it Mexican. The beach was fantastic though as it was on the Caribean, and the…

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Tulum Mayan ruins

About 20 miles from the hotel were the Mayan ruins of Tulum which are on a cliff top. These Mayans traded by sea with the Cubans until the Spanish conquistadors finally squished them only 500 years ago.

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Mexico

what the heck is going on here?

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A link to some photos of the wedding in Mexico, of my cousin Sara to Craig.http://www.flickr.com/photos/93707000@N00/sets/210638/ Sam and I sang a duet at the reception to the happy couple which is on video somewhere. If I find a copy I’ll post it maybe, maybe not.

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