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Waiting for ferry to
island. Doris getting some last minute texting in! |
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It was a two hour very
smooth ride. |
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Dinner the first day at
Qualicum Beach.
Ask Doris to describe the
entertainment! |
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YUM!!!
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First stop was the Blue
Willow B&B. This was our third time here. |
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Our car and corner room. |
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The property is
protected by attack bunnies. |
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Moss of the roof. |
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Typical morning
breakfast setting. |
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Saturday morning
breakfast. |
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REALLY??? |
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Bacon wrapped sausage
and a BIG sliced brisket sandwich. |
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Doris couldn't finish
hers.
It was OK, but not really Texas BBQ. |
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The daily tide change here is about
11 feet, so when it is out, there is a very big beach. |
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Hike in Heritage Forest.
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These are BIG trees.
One old Douglas Fir is 187 feet high and about 800
years old. |
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There was a clearing in
the middle of the forest, and one rhododendron was in
full bloom. Most of the forest is very dark. |
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Sidney Area and Butchart Gardens |
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We got to the Sidney harbor at
the same time Deborah, Bob and Matthew returned from a 3
day cruise of the islands.
We had a great visit
and dinner to celebrate our 30th anniversary! |
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Docking in Sidney.
This is a big video file (about 6MB).
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The LED candles did not
survive the warm days in storage since the last visit!
They now have wax art! |
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Mimi texting!
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Captain Bob has GPS,
radar and many other toys. |
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Majestic bald eagle
looking for dinner.
This guy was over a hundred
yards away on a channel marker. |
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Our Anniversary
#30 !! |
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Brentwood Lighthouse B&B
near Sidney, BC |
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Marker for our B&B. |
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View of Brentwood Bay from our bedroom.
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Even in Canada!!
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A day at Butchart Gardens |
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Our last dinner on the island was at the
Brentwood Bay Pub. Doris had the Garlic Prawn
Linguine and John had the Halibut Fish & Chips. |
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Leaving
the Island - next stop Leavenworth Washington |
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OOPS!!
I guess we took a wrong turn getting on the
ferry! |
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Our B&B in Leavenworth.
Bill and Paula at the Granite Hills Inn were great
hosts and the food was wonderful!
There were
still signs of the 1994 fire in the upper mountains.
We were here a few days after that fire was controlled. |
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Breakfast table.
The sign over the patio door is:
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Buddy, the official
greeter. |
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A few nutcrackers in a
store in town. |
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Doris LOVES hats!
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Black Forrest Cake after
some excellent German food. (yes, there were two
forks!) |
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A glass of wine to end a
shopping day in Leavenworth before our return to Texas and
all of the rain.
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Not sure what these are,
but they are very pretty. They were in the front
yard of the B&B. |
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We also visited the
National Fish Hatchery
and saw the Native American Indians harvesting
salmon for their tribe. Unfortunately, a camera
malfunction kept me from getting pictures of the harvest. They
clubbed the salmon on the head to quickly kill them,
read any tags, documented weight and length and put them
on ice to take to the elders. We saw some as big
as 30 inches!
The next day there were still some
fishing with a pole, but we did not see any caught. |
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Beautiful horses in the
field next to our B&B. |
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We drove through Roslyn
on our way back to Seattle. We had visited Roslyn
in 1994 while they were filming the TV show "Northern
Exposure".
The setting was "Cicely, Alaska", and
a lot of the action took place in "The Brick". |
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I have a similar shot of
Doris from 1994. |
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Many of the old "Cicely"
stores and even the radio station are still in Roslyn. |
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