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All the public schools in BC are on strike, so no school for the kids. We have this indefinite extension to our summer holidays and my brain was cooking up a plan to ‘do something’. The forecast looked great for 4 days, and I didn’t want to waste it at home. I wanted something close, but...
Our life together began in the outdoors. The first personal trip we did with a bunch of others, was kayaking the Gold River on Vancouver Island. I was fresh off the plane from New Zealand, and I found myself on a grade 4 river that the boys told me was grade 3. I would do ‘fine’...
Our campsite at the Blue River Campground was shrouded in rain and mosquito’s. The day before was a mission 14hr drive from Vancouver Island with an epic grocery shop thrown in there for provisions for our party of 12. I was feeling frazzled already, and we hadn’t even started packing. I had concerns….. Would the...
In Central British Columbia is tucked this gem of a lake, with clear sparkling waters, majestic mountains, and heavily forested slopes. Murtle boasts being the largest non-motorized lake in North America, and is shaped like a backwards “L”. It has more than 100km of pristine shoreline, dotted with white sandy beaches…..all the perfect ingredients for...
I remember before we had kids, standing on the beach at Cathedral Cove in New Zealand, trying to convince myself to go for a swim in the ocean. It was hard, because I am a total wuss when it comes to cold water. I liked the idea of going in, but wasn’t so stoked about...
