Some odds and ends

Here are a few little random things that didn't seem to merit a whole page of their own
Our neighbors are interesting people. Christy and Jared, the couple that lives in the brown house are marine biologists who study the whale population here. Christy is a photographer and rushes out of the house with a gigantic camera every time a whale goes by. Since we've been here there's only been one. A solitary minkie. The rest of the time they're working on cataloging or are out in a boat.

In the white house on the other side is the captain of the ferry when he's not at home.

One door down from the ferry captain is the Alert Bay Lodge. It's been through a lot of different purposes. It used to be an Elder Hostel where groups would come to learn about killer whales and the First Nation culture of the island. It lets rooms right now and the summer managers are Rich and Emma from the north coast of Wales.





There are three churches on the island the old Anglican church, something called the House of Prayer and this little Catholic Church with a complicated schedule of masses. The priest only comes twice a month.

Clockwise around the collage: The old hospital crumbling into a ruin. The new one is beautiful. Old British buses belonging Colin Richie who owns a lot of property in Alert Bay, including the Seine Boat Inn. Really beautiful, large rooms right out over the water in an old wharf building. He lives in the little yellow house. The London taxi cab is parked in front of his hotel.

The little green boat with the net floats is called the Necklace. The wood shed belongs to the wood working artist. We see the fellow in this beautiful canoe paddling around once in a while.

The Van Isle 360 passed by the house a few days ago. They had just left Telegraph Cove where they had stopped for the night. There were probably 40 or so sail boats of different classes from really big with a crew of 8 to really small with a couple of people on board.

 It's a sailing race that goes all the way around the island about 500 miles. One the most unusual ones was this catamaran with Chines style sails and dragons on the sides.

 These two pictures aren't a perfect match but this is one of the old growth trees up on the mountain. Who knows how many hundreds of years old it its.