Another Magical Day at the Spit

I find it difficult to not crack a huge smile when we are down at Whiffin Spit for a walk, this day was no exception, lots to watch, the best air to breathe, sun on our faces.

The Acura

It's about a week off fifteen years since we bought the RSX, and we had negotiated the price down from thirty-five thousand to one penny over thirty. It was an exciting time, and Karen ended up with the exact car that she wanted, the type of car that she had originally seen in the Oshawa car park one evening and she thinks we had been to the Keg.

Stats :
Picked up on the 21st March 2003, inclusive price was $30000.01 cash, it had been manufactured, in Japan, in May 2002.
One hundred thousand kilometres, two days ago.
In fifteen years, numerous oil changes of course, air filters, one set of Michelin tires, a new battery (long before the old one failed) several wiper blades, one fuse, zero bulbs replaced, zero spark plugs changed, one O2 sensor changed (and I still have the tools) and everything else is original.
Some rattles, some dings, some wear and tear, but the car still gives good gas mileage and is a very pleasant vehicle to drive and we hope for many more years of happy trails with it.

Photo taken this afternoon.

Spirit Bay

It was a good Sunday down at our friends house in Spirit Bay, good food, a few craft beers and a lot of laughs were had, there was a touch of spring in the fresh, marine air, it was lovely.

Greg, Karen, Sonya, Ken and me, oh and Coco the dog. Andrea took the photo.

Greg and Andrea are the guys from Gibsons that we would meet up with at Persephone every Wednesday during growler hour. Sonya and Ken live in Spirit Bay and we meet up with them on occasion at various bars around the Sooke area.

Surprisingly, a lot of the discussion during the day was about beer.

A Very odd 16 hours

If a tree falls in a forest, does anybody hear?

In our case, a tree fell down last night at around 10.30pm and took down a bunch of hydro wires, the lights went out for over 600 Sunriver residents, and the power stayed off all night, regardless of how many times we checked.

In the morning, Karen and myself took off to Victoria, had breakfast, went shopping, went to Moon under Water, had lunch, went shopping, went to 17 Mile House, had beers, all the time checking to see if we had the "lecky" back at our house. It was around 3.00pm that we were given the green light, on the BC Hydro website, to go home again.

An extremely odd 16 hours.

A year on the Island.

We have entered the last days of fall, and it has been a wet, windy and spectacular November.

The first year anniversary of our move to Vancouver Island passed with much celebration, because it had been a fantastic year, full of adventure and exploration, and we consider that we have not even scratched the surface of this amazing place.

Winter will of course be embraced, but for now, we will continue to enjoy the colors of fall and long walks down by the sea.

Weather permitting....

Photo from Harvey Russell, Sooke Pocketnews.

Sooke Brewing

Just to show the fantastic new brewery building at night, we had our third vist there today :

First Customers....

Sooke brewery, today....