Today we called in at a craft fare and bonsai tree exhibition. We saw some lovely polished stones, shell ornaments and ideas using driftwood. The bonsai trees were made to look like miniature forests and some were over a hundred years old!

Afterwards we called in to see the wood carving …it’s looking amazing and I was given a tiny wooden axe in a tiny log ( because we were English!) 

We travelled South today down to Courtney. It is a small quaint Canadian town and quite unspoilt. We went round the shops and had chowder in the local pub. It is really hot today 30c. Alex tells me you have a heatwave coming too.

We called in at one or two beaches on the way back. The islands seemed so close to the coast here. There is so much driftwood here as we have found everywhere we go. There was the skeleton of a deer on the shore at one place. The sand is grey and gravelly. 

   I haven’t mentioned the wildlife we have been seeing over the time we’ve been in Canada. So far we’ve seen red and grey squirrels, weasel, large blue herons and a small English sized one, many bald headed eagles,deer, elk, buzzards,lizards, fish jumping out of the water,tiny crabs, gulls, martins, jays and other birds we can’t name.

Today we saw deer and eagles and herons.

Tomorrow we move back to Nanaimo and will explore the new coastline as we travel south via the picturesque road 19A

Hope you like my photos and enjoy your hot weather. I wonder how cold it is in Newfoundland? We’ll find out on Thursday xxxxx love to you all