We saw a fair amount of lightning and we also had the fireworks after the bathtub race.
Where do you live?
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We saw a fair amount of lightning and we also had the fireworks after the bathtub race.
Gezzz I haven't been to Orleans since I was 16.. Do they still have the Hotel at the lights ?
Nice.
Creston (about 6000 people) has no jams, not much 'tude, etc. Even less in Kaslo (about 1100 population). Nelson (area pop. about 9,000) has 'tude and jams. Castlegar (about 7100) has both. Trail isn't too bad (pop. about 8000).
And if you want to get away from all the big city problems of the West Kootenay metropolises just head 60 miles west to quaint and serene Grand Forks pop 4000, but bring your job with you..............:lol::lol::lol:
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Never spent much time in GF. I do like Rock Creek, though. And up 3 towards Kloneville is cool. Or up Christian Valley is even cooler. I like it over by Watshan Lake too.
Can't handle Crannybrook.But up towards Windemere and the Columbia Valley is nice.
Never spent much time in GF. I do like Rock Creek, though. And up 3 towards Kloneville is cool. Or up Christian Valley is even cooler. I like it over by Watshan Lake too.
Can't handle Crannybrook.But up towards Windemere and the Columbia Valley is nice.
Nice.
Creston (about 6000 people) has no jams, not much 'tude, etc. Even less in Kaslo (about 1100 population). Nelson (area pop. about 9,000) has 'tude and jams. Castlegar (about 7100) has both. Trail isn't too bad (pop. about 8000).
Trail is like a moonscape jammed into a crevice! Nelsonites have been walking around with broom stick up their butts since some book named it the number one arts community in Canada. Castlegar stinks of pulp mill effluent. Kaslo is cool. Most people think of poligamy when they think of Creston. Alberians have bought up half of New Denver but are absentee owners, which is really hurting local businesses.
You forgot Nakusp. Pop: 1500, friendly, no traffic jams, mountains, lakes and some of the finest scenery anywhere. But don't come here. We like our privacy. Just kidding. We get thousands of motorcycles coming through here every year because of the roads, Music Fest and hot springs.
I've lived in Nanaimo, Brentwood Bay, Courtenay and Campbell River. All have good and bad. Nanaimo has the ugliest looking downtown core on the Island. I loved Courtenay. Brentwood was ok but was afraid to wake up everyone. Campbell River has changed a lot. The entry into Campbell River is brand new and looks great. Have an ocean view home that would be out of my price range down island. It has been good to me.
C-gar doesn't stink near a much these days and Trail actually is growing green stuff around it.lol
Kaslo is cool. Creston is a ways from Bountiful, though. Nelson drivers are a pile of idiots.I like Denver and Silverton. Nakusp is niceUsed to go to St. Lyons HS (or was it Halcyon) when there wasn't any developments. I like Burton, too.
Kaslo is cool. Creston is a ways from Bountiful, though. Nelson drivers are a pile of idiots.I like Denver and Silverton. Nakusp is niceUsed to go to St. Lyons HS (or was it Halcyon) when there wasn't any developments. I like Burton, too.
Halcyon was just off the highway and St Lyon is 6 klicks up a logging road. In the eighties Halcyon was my bath tub. Went there every other day. Spectacular view on the mountains across the lake.
Burton is a blink and miss place but once you get off the highway, it is a very nice little rural community. Silverton is suffering the same as New Denver but they are beautiful towns.
BTW, I went to the dig at Lemon Creek today. Very interesting. The crew are archaeologists and anthropologists working together. Their carbon dating shows it to be one of the oldest sites in the interior plateau. Over 90 pithouse sites in the area, some were huge (40 plus feet in diameter).
I wish I had an ocean view home but that kind of money is beyond us. Downtown Nanaimo is changing. Not all of it has been prettied up but as Juan showed you, it has a good start. It's a long ways from where I live and I rarely go near there.
From what I was told at the store today it sounds like nearly the whole city saw it except for us. Hubby was working graveyard shift and with the hot weather I have all my drapes closed so I really didn't notice it at all. Wish I had.:smile:
City of Nanaimo is ugly, never have liked it, I just go to outskirts, woodgrove
and area, and the Crow and Gate, (thanks juan for letting me in on that sweet secret, )and I love Quallicum, do lots of lunches and walking there, great
little 'small store' town, but also too expensive, they price everything for
the tourists and the high end retirees in the area.
I lived in Parksville for 3 years, enjoyed it there, nice people, and close to
the ocean, we were on that beach so much.
I like the courtenay/comox valley much better as there is so much more to do,
never get bored in the valley, and it's a great walking area, both courtenay
and comox.
We have several different places to have lunch (outside) by the water.
And I like Campbell River too, have spent lots of time there, nice restaurants,
good shopping, down to earth prices, and it's pretty there, as you can see
the ocean from almost everywhere, and a great marina behind the mall to
stroll and look at all the boats.
I'm still living in my home. 
I guess it was Halcyon HS we used to go to. It was only a couple hundred feet above the hway. Heard it was all developed so we quit going there. Was kind of neat to sit in the crude, railway-tie, sand-bottomed tub with the snows of winter all around. Or lie in the little creek beside it.
I guess it was Halcyon HS we used to go to. It was only a couple hundred feet above the hway. Heard it was all developed so we quit going there. Was kind of neat to sit in the crude, railway-tie, sand-bottomed tub with the snows of winter all around. Or lie in the little creek beside it.
I can say that the last street we lived on in Courtenay was a friendly one. I think that was because all of us on the street were "new". No one had lived in the area for so long that they felt they didn't need any new friends as it was a whole new subdivision. At that time it was referred to as the area of 200 homes. Just off Ryan Road and Back Road. It turned into much more than 200 homes. My daughter-in-law said just yesterday that house sales in Courtenay have really slowed. Her brother was living there until the past few weeks and is now in the midst of a marriage breakup and they are trying to sell their house so they are into knowing how the market is I guess.
Ha ha, take away the Cruiseships going through Discovery Passage and seen from just about every house, the real seawalk at nearly everyone's door step that's loaded with gorgeous rollerblading chicks, and the huge public fishing Pier and replace it all with BC Ferries..you almost step down to the Nanaimo level.
Okay. That's it. The gloves are off.;-):lol:
Nanaimo, the only major city on Vancouver Island where B.C. Ferries actually land in the city. Victoria is served by a Ferry that lands in Schwartz Bay....Some thirty kilometers away. Here is a short tour of a small part of the waterfront:
Nanaimo Travel - Waterfront Walking Tour
http://www.gonanaimo.com/nanaimo/nanaimo-parks.html
