Clothes Removed, Arctic Paddling

On Saturday we finally had some snow in Vancouver! Not quite as much as the UK, but it still made for a fun morning watching trucks skid around the corner outside our apartment block (trucks are particularly slidey as they don’t have much weight at the back). Once we were bored of that, we decided to head to the beach! We arbitrarily chose Pacific Spirit Regional Park and headed off on our trusty winter tyres. When we got there, we discovered that we had chosen a “clothing optional” beach. Disappointingly, everyone was dressed.

There were lots of chilly looking paddling birds at the beach. I wonder if they get scared off by the naked humans in the summer.

We have separated out the bird photos, either for easy access or easy skipping, depending on your inclination.

On Sunday we went to Deep Cove, a community in North East Vancouver. Primarily, we wanted to go because they have a famous doughnut shop, but also it is usually really crowded and we thought the weather might have put some people off. Aside from the doughnuts, Deep Cove is also famous for paddling, be that in a canoe or in a kayak. The hire place wasn’t open, but it made us want to get out on the water. We are trying to work out if we can fit a canoe in our parking spot.

Monday was a bank holiday in Canada – for “Family Day”. As our only available family was each other, we spent it together. Ollie made some baguettes for a change from the sourdough, we hung up our art from last week’s blog and we went for a local walk to Burnaby Lake.

On Saturday, we have booked ourselves in for a class at “MakerLabs” – a maker space in Vancouver with lots of tools for making “almost anything”. We are going to start with some more woodwork, but maybe we will discover another passion! Then one of us is turning 30 on Monday… We’ve taken the day off work to commiserate.