Day 237 – It rained last night and this morning; what else is new. We read on the news this morning that the Pacific Northwest has experienced record-breaking rains last month and this month so far. Last summer Vancouver Island and Vancouver had record-breaking heat. We decided we’d rather have the rains than the heat. No more complaining.
We slept in this morning and continued being lazy all day. As the afternoon wore on, we decided to cancel our dinner reservations. We weren’t that hungry and when studying the menu online, we determined there wasn’t that much that jumped out and grabbed us. It was a very expensive, gourmet, small-plate kind of place where the entire back of the restaurant had windows looking out on the harbor. It would’ve been nice, but why spend a lot of money when you don’t see lots that you want to eat, and why pay money to look out over the harbor when your RV has spent the past 5 days looking out over that same harbor?
We sat here in the RV looking through the falling rain at the Canada Geese splashing around going after fish. We made our Newfoundland Partridgeberry drinks, ordered a pizza to be delivered, and waited for whatever cruise ship was arriving tonight. Or whatever seals or river otters would visit. The mama Raccoon was here earlier. So was the Great Blue Heron and his Sea Gull friend. And the female Deer visited the beach at low tide, standing on her hoofed tippy-toes to reach tree leaves to yank of the trees and eat. We’ll miss the activity around this campsite. It has been a little nature’s paradise.
Funny thing, though, the girls have been a little irritable with the lack of privacy (no trees between sites) and too many people sightings. Almost all the RVs here have one to three small dogs. This makes the girls frown. Then there’s the Ferry horn which bellows three times a day as it comes into the harbor. Pixie and Luna growl like dogs at the sound. While they’ve been somewhat fascinated by the Canada Geese and the Raccoon, we think they’ll be more relaxed at the next campground, a Provincial Park without hook-ups out in the boonies. Which reminds me – we will be spending most of the next six weeks out in the sticks – we may not have internet or phone…..we’ll see. Sorry if the blog posts arrive sporadically!
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