I woke to rain this morning but, as mostly usual, it cleared up by mid-day. Needing to get up at, gasp, 5AM tomorrow I decided that a long walk in the bracing ocean air might be what I need to tucker myself out enough to go to bed at a reasonable hour. Norma left me a little project that requires a trip to the hardware store, so I decided to walk to the Rona, about three kilometres away. The store wound up not having what I needed, but I did get a few things for myself. It was an amazing walk and there were moments that made me feel that I was in either or both an alien world and a Harry Potter novel!
there are wizards in Campbell River!
I thought this was William Tell at first, but turns out it’s Eve!
The first of several fantastic wooden statues all set up in a park. They are available for ‘rent’ by local businesses and I had fun spotting them throughout the village.
Oscar!
Willowpoint Village has a grocery store, coffee shop, restaurants, pharmacy, pizza place, and just about any other service you could need
this whimsical seaside cottage is almost a cliché
Driving down the highway, I saw Cookie Monster from the rear and knew I had to walk down and take a look at all the statues!
first time I’ve seen a wooden inuksuk!
a jetty
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this burn pattern caught my eye
I wear a size nine shoe, if that’ll help with scale
it also looks like that writhing mass of snakes at the bottom of the Well of Souls in Raiders of the Lost Ark
this is pretty much what I imagined Devil’s Snare (from the Harry Potter series) looks like
yellow dogwood next to seaweed
that is some serious seaweed!