Oct 102014
Reading at Open Space Gallery, Victoria.
Photo credit: Miles Giesbrecht. Artists’ works: Tommy Ting (London), Dong-Kyoon Nam (Winnipeg).
Mist on the water. Strait of Juan de Fuca near Sooke.
DG on Sombrio Beach.
Port Renfrew otters (just before we saw the bear).
First Nations exhibit, Royal BC Museum.
Douglas Street.
The bookstore founded by Alice Munro and her first husband.
Breakwater (dark by the time dg got to the end).
So glad you got to explore the coastline a bit. It’s glorious, isn’t it? I will haunt the place when I die. The Strait of Juan de Fuca and the San Juan Islands is where my soul resides, always. I once planned to live on a boat in the harbor there until I figured out that I would die of the damp. But a small cabin, up high, with a view of the strait, Vancouver Island, and the many beautiful sunsets? Heaven. Glad you got to see it. I try to explain to people what a singular place it is, but it’s hard to make it sound as special as it is.