Come along on our most recent summer adventure to Strathcona Park, near Campbell River, and Gold River, Vancouver Island.
We camped for 4 nights at Buttle Lake Campground, and visited many beautiful waterfalls throughout the park. Lady Falls, Lupin Falls, Upper and Lower Myra Falls, as well as many lakes and beaches!
We also enjoyed exploring the Upana caves, near Gold River and got pretty deep underground!
Finally, we also got tickets to cruise for a day aboard the boat MV Uchuck III out of Gold River, that delivers to a bunch of Logging camps, Fish Farms and remote communities around Nootka Sound.
This summer, there has been a visible Comet zooming through our Solar System. Comet Neowise, which last looped around the sun about 7000 years ago is putting on a great show. Visible to the eye, about an hour after sunset, this Comet is in the North-North-West part of the sky, above the horizon and getting higher in the sky each day.
I’ve been able to view Comet Neowise for a few nights with clear skies and a good sightline. Using my telescope is challenging, as it is not as bright as other planets and a little hard to see and capture. However, using my Android Pixel 3 smartphone, with its special “Astrophotography” mode, I am able to take longer exposure pictures that have turned out well.
And here is a timelapse of the sunset as we waited to see Comet Neowise from Bear Hill, Central Saanich
UPDATE: We’ve had to postpone for 1 year. Don’t worry, we are being safe and cautious and will begin our travel once things have stabilized, opened up and are ready for tourism. We are disappointed, but not overly so, and look forward to getting out there when our world turns back towards normalcy.
Welcome to our site, where we will be sharing videos, pictures and stories from our trip around the world, starting August 2021 and not coming home until August 2022!
Caroline and I are both teachers who live near Victoria, British Columbia. We’ve been saving up for a long time for this sabbatical year, where we are taking a break from our jobs to go explore, adventure and learn a lot more about our world and our selves.
We hope to post weekly videos, links to photo albums, stories and artifacts here on our blog. Please subscribe if you want to come along and get notified when we post new stuff! Below is our first video that captures a bit of our start in Canada and jaunt over to Europe, starting in August 2021.
We will miss our home, our families and our friends and schools, but we hope to stay in touch and feel connected with everyone back home as we share our stories here.
As well, I made a short Google Earth video of our route through Canada in Aug-Sept 2020 and our first stop in Lisbon, Portugal.
Welcome to my resurrected blog! I’ve had my own domain since early 2003, and it has gone through many iterations and versions.
I am a Teacher-Librarian at a High School near Sidney BC called Parkland Secondary It is a beautiful part of the world, and I love living there with my wife. We like to garden, cycle, travel and explore our local natural environment that surrounds this amazing peninsula.
My professional interests are around School Libraries and transitions to Library Learning Commons models, as well as Inquiry Based Learning and International Baccalaureate learning as we became an IB World School offering the IB Diploma Program for Sept 2018.
I have lived most of my life around the Salish Sea and appreciate all the beauty, splendor and wealth that it offers us. I am especially grateful for the many first nations and their contributions to our special part of the world.
