Well here is to another winter in a beautiful warm part of the world. This past couple of weeks of heavy rain and fog has more than got us ready to exit Vancouver island! We ended our time home with Christopher and Laila spending 5 days with us and going fishing with Doug in the Brown's Bay annual Chum fishing derby. We loved their visit and hope they make it a yearly trek! Hopefully the fishing is better next year though
Monday it was time to finally get the boat out of the water. I was thrilled to have Christopher help as it is usually just Doug and I. I had to give Christopher a lecture though as 5 years ago when he was here and helped Doug launch the boat, he nearly launched the truck also! I told him I was coming along as supervisor and he had better be listening when I yell stop as he backs down the boat ramp!
Boy does Doug's truck need a wash! Christopher backing down the boat ramp
You can see Doug in the distance heading to the boat, thank-goodness it wasn't raining
Laila took a picture of Christopher and I as we waited for Doug to come over with the boat
Here comes Doug and Christopher did stop when I told him to! I was in shorts and had my water shoes on so I could go into the ocean and help guide the boat onto the trailer. The water was surprisingly warm
One try and Doug had it perfectly on the trailer. I am always impressed!
Almost there! I just need to get the boat attached to the trailer and we'll be all set
Christopher gets the go ahead to head up the ramp
Doug gets to ride in the boat and gives Laila a big wave!!
This was Monday, we then took the kids to the Comox airport in the afternoon. Tuesday we worked all day cleaning the inside and outside of the boat, readying it for winter. We took the boat into town that afternoon where we have a heated indoor storage space. They pulled our RV trailer out to put the boat in. We brought the trailer home to pack for Arizona and the count down was on. Thankfully we did both actions when we did as Tuesday night into Wednesday morning was when we had torrential rain that did a lot of damage in the bay!
This is the creek at the bottom of the hill that goes between the road to the RV resort and the marina parking area. Overnight, the culvert on the upperside blocked with fallen trees, branches and other debris causing the creek to flow up and over the road and washing out the bank in many places.
This is the bridge between the marina parking lot and the long term parking that was totally undermined by the over flowing creek
A big piece of the bank above the marina parking lot washed down when a creek above overflowed its bank and created a new diversion!
Normally we don't have falls at Brown's Bay!
I made candy apples for the little kids in the bay, I found a wonderful recipe for homemade caramel and was dying to try making it so thought this was a great project. There are seven little boys that live in the bay. One little girl but she is just a baby so I gave them out the day before Halloween as we left town Halloween morning. I had enough left over to bring one for Brian and Antaya.
We got away from Brown's Bay by 11 am this morning and had a super drive to Victoria. Sunny most of the way. Brian met us once we settled in to Fort Victoria RV park and took home a huge cooler full of food from our freezer. Should keep him fed for at least a couple of weeks! We got to meet his girl friend Antaya and took them both out to dinner. We had a wonderful time and thought Antaya was lovely. Told Brian she was a keeper!! I think he was listening. Brian and Antaya are heading to Vancouver tomorrow and he'll get to meet her side of the family......sounds interesting eh?
Antaya, Brian and I after our birthday dinner - Brian turns 36 tomorrow November 01st.
Brian and I. It was so good to see him and finally meet Antaya. Was a great way to spend our last day in Canada for the next 6 months or so! We are on the 4pm Coho ferry tomorrow afternoon and on our way.
