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Good afternoon. For OB. And yes, DD is very happy two albums were released during our road trip.

@MJSailors you write beautiful posts. Thank you for the voluntary work you and your fellow parishioners do for your community.

Sorry you are unable to take meds to ease your knee pain Graham. That would be tough. That is a beautiful sea wall in your photo. Is it a scroll design or octopus?

Love these. The colours & the style.

DS hiked 5km solo today to the RCAF Canso plane crash site. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff in 1945. There is a crater shaped pond nearby from where the rescuers detonated the bombs on board rather than attempt to carry them out.

I’ll let you know when I am back home. Can’t remember atm.

Thought I’d share these two photos that I received yesterday taken by the crew photographer on board our Vancouver Island Whale Watch. First photo is the Humpack we saw. Second photo - love that this photo of the Orcas is taken head on.

@Ozark_Kid your plants are thriving. Beautiful garden. Loved the video. As always, thanks for sharing

Had a lovely day walking 2km through the rainforest on boardwalks, exploring another beach and hiking up a very steep, very muddy ‘hill’, with no signage, no track and lots and lots of tree roots to clamber over…. Rainforest Trails So nice to visit Tofino in the off-season when it is not crowded. This sign in the rainforest - oldie but a goodie The bottom of the track before we hit the steep incline… Views from the top were worth it though.

Note to self - do not wear your favourite jeans and a white jacket on a very muddy trail up a steep hillside 🤦‍♀️

@DaniDanielle Congratulations on your 53rd Anniversary 💒🥂

All I can say it is to clear the margins which is what you want to happen. You should have seen the incision and the large number of stitches I got for a tiny red dot on the side of my face. My colleagues were surprised I needed to take 2 weeks off work, so I sent them a photo of all the stitches…..Just an fyi - I religiously rubbed in the cream recommended by the surgeon post op for quite so time. It worked a treat. All I can see now is a area of my skin on the side of my face that is paler than the rest of my face. No-one else would notice it

@dani negreanu Beautiful, happy photo of you all ❤️

I actually walked straight past it…then DS called me back & pointed out the “eye” to me and I still didn’t see it 🤦‍♀️. Once I finally “got it” I thought it was cool.

Good evening. Photos from Tofino. Weather is ideal & we are enjoying every minute of our roadtrip of Vancouver Island.

+ 1 @dani negreanu

How wonderful that you & your family share your memories of your beautiful mom on this special day.

Thanks. The whale watching photos yesterday are from a canon camera that has what I call a long lense but it’s not long compared to the actual long lenses all the other passengers had on the zodiac! I brought it over from Australia for DS to use. Dad bought it a couple of years ago but never used it so offered it to me for this trip for Alaska. All other photos are from my usual “old” iPhone that I post my Sydney pictures from. Thanks for the compliment Planning this trip did my head in at times. It was hard. So much research but it is absolutely paying off.

Me too. Loved the book Scarlett too.

Today, the excitement ramped up even further. We dressed in four layers then headed to our Whale watch tour out of Nanaimo, where we were provided with a head to toe expedition suit and goggles. Boarded our zodiac with 7 others + naturalist + crew/photographer and Captain. Then spent the most wonderful 4 hours on the water. After seeing stellar sea lions, harbour seals, humpback whale, we continued on all the way up near to Squamish in the water. In this absolutely beautiful water, surrounded by snow capped mountains and we saw ORCAS!!! We spent about an hour just drifting as this family of four orcas (mum & 3 sons - one only 1 year old) swam nearby. Our Zodiac was the only one there. We had this magic to ourselves. I was almost in tears. Took a solid 1hr high speed ride back to Nanaimo but it was so worth it and in all the gear, ours & theirs, we were toasty warm despite the cold temps on the open zodiac.

Good evening, our wonderful Vancouver roadtrip continues. Yesterday, we visited The Raptors in Duncan and saw a Bald Eagle up close and in flight up close then a Barn Owl up close and in flight up close. Very exciting for us Aussies.

@h20skibum 🙋‍♀️HP fan here. Love the floating letters. Your grand daughter’s face in the video. Thanks for sharing her fab party. @bobmacliberty Micheline’s Halloween decoration - wow. @Lionesss Congratulations to your son in his new position.

Here are the other two I took photos of.

Good evening. After 4 lovely days in Victoria BC, we hit the road. First stop, The Malahat Skywalk. Horrendously overpriced but we are glad we did it. DS was the only one of us to do the quick return via the slide. I also liked the driftwood sculptures that were displayed as you walked along the elevated timber walkway to reach the skywalk structure.

I don’t knit but I admire your creative skills and that sounds like a perfect weekend