Tonight I start my latest adventure down the alberni canal on to the broken islands. I am so excited I can hardly stand myself. You know you can see take the lady rose down the alberni canal to bamfield for 25 dollars! It stops along the way to all the little outposts on the waterway delivering mail and supplies. Of course my mode of transport will not be luxurious, a kayak, but oh the sights and sound I will hear!
What a night it was on this rock! First I wake up from this dream around midnight, in my dream I realize I have left my patio doors wide open, which I do anyway, I get up to close them and there is snow all over the place, my curtains are frozen solid! what the??? it was 35 celicus during the day, where did this come from? I hear something in my vegie garden, I look out and see two guys digging up my squash. Hey! I am calling the cops! they just keep digging up my vegies. I wake up! jump up and go shut my patio doors and lock them! no snow! good, nobody in the garden. I go back to bed doze off. Next thing the phone rings, who would be calling me at 1:30 in the morning, I answer the phone, a squeaky little voice says " Is Jimmy there"? Just a minute I will get him. I stuff the phone under the pillows and go back to sleep. I wake up 2 because the phone off the hook noise is loud and wakes me up. 2:30 there is a cat in heat calling all males within a 40 mile radius somewhere near my window! It sounds like a very loud baby! Its driving me nuts, finally I get up and yell out my window, would some Tom take care of this please! Finally everything is quiet, now it is 3:30. I punch my pillows get in the postion and just about to finally doze off. There is a musquito in the room, a small spitfire buzzing around in the dark, wonder if he is carrying that bird virsus. What if he is and bites me when I am asleep! Get up and hunt the little bugger down. Now it is 4 am, just start to doze off I hear strange noises and things being crashed around and tossed, I look out my window racoons! mama and babies, they have a bag from Mcdonalds and are fighting about its contents! I need Sleep! Finally I get some around 5. Like clockwork the birds start their top 40 tunes at 6. Time for coffee.
Bevvy you been to Bamfield, another great place we use to take logging roads up there, lots of fun to go sideways down those switchbacks. My brother use to flip the manifold on his truck, so it sounded like a tank coming down the hill. The things that use to amuse us!
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