On The Road Again!

I am finally getting away for a while. Yay! 

It’s not a far away trip, it is local, but it is to an area of BC that I have never been to, even though I have lived half my life here. On Thursday Sept. 3rd, I drove up to Woss, on the northern part of Vancouver Island, using the old highway along the coast to visit my sister there for a couple of nights.

What a relaxing time with my sister. We took a couple of walks: one with the purpose of picking some of the late blackberries; the other was just a walk but on our route we found many huckleberry bushes still in berry! Both walks were very tasty!  We also drove up Mount Cain and explored some of the logging roads on the way, looking at the views and taking pictures. 

On Saturday, I drove back down to Comox and took a ferry over to Powell River, on the mainland. The area from there to Gibsons, near West Vancouver, is known as the Sunshine Coast and I have not visited it before. I’ll spend about a week exploring the small communities along the coast before taking a ferry to West Vancouver and another to Nanaimo, on the island before returning to Parksville. I have often heard of this circle route and others have told me how lovely a trip it is. A bonus is that the weather forecast is for hot sunny days for at least that long, possibly even longer. How fortunate!

I am very impressed with BC Ferries management of this virus. If you leave your car for any reason, on land or at sea a mask is required. And when there were a few people walking in the lot waiting to board, without masks, they made an announcement on the intercom to remind them. I did go up through the main deck to the outside ares to take some photos and everything was well organized and signed for distancing.