As of this afternoon my friend Ken is still refusing to leave and is still resting and fast asleep as he as been for the last 9 days….here is the last photo of Ken and his two sons Kirby and Scott!!
I wish the family peace and I know your thoughts go out to them at this time….thanks also for those of you you have sent me e mails regarding ken!!
Another of the Bank family and one of ken’s Grandsons, Ben, who just graduated with honours from High School and is set to go to VIU in September was awarded a 1000 dollar scholarship from the RCMP, well done Ben!!
Yet another of Ken’s Grandsons, Zach had a remarkable accomplishment this last week. Zach is the eat, sleep, walk, talk and play golf kind of kid!!!!!
This past week in Victoria Zach competed in the BC provincial Golf Championship….for all kids in BC and he came 11th!!!!! Well done KID!!!!!!!! Must be those tips I gave you last year!!!! What is more remarkable about his placement of 11th is that the competition is for kids 16 years and under and Zach JUST turned 14 years last month!!! Watch out for him on the Pro circuit!!
Well we arrived back from our kayak and camping trip late last night, we came back one day early as the weather on the West coast started to turn.
I met Sara’s son Gabe and a delightful young man he is, 33 years old, an artist and he seems real happy and content.
We drove the 4 hours up to Tofino and the weather was overcast and after putting all of our stuff into the three kayaks we paddled about 2 hours to our destination Vargas Island and here we are…
It was about 8.30pm when we finished setting up camp, so we had tea and enjoyed chatting around the camp fire.
The next morning awoke to sunshine and clear skies….
Very beautiful surroundings..
The island had warnings about wolves..
Lots of tracks but no sightings…
This little guy seemed to stay with us for the whole time…
We did try an afternoon paddle but turned around because the waves and currents were not good
….believe me we did see one huge California Sea Lion on this rock!!!!
Some of us may have had to bail out our boats from a rough landing!!!!!
Gabe found this sea lion skull on the rocks..
We passed the time playing Scrabble, different location same winner!!!!!
A walk on the beach at sunset..
Sara and Gabe!!!
You may see us next year on Dancing with the Stars!!!!
It was another good day but the evening was cooler.
Friday morning was again not so good so we decided to break camp and head home. We spent a couple of hours in Tofino had supper in Port Alberni and arrived home late last night.
Gabe has gone to spend time with his Dad who also lives on the Island. It was a pleasure to meet him and spend time with Sara and her son!!!!!!
Today was supposed to be a day of rest…tell that to Sara!!!!! We spent about 5 long hours doing lots of work including packing away all the camping gear, getting the suite downstairs ready for new prospective tenants to view and now we are treating ourselves to dinner and a movie…..blessings to all!!!!
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