{"id":21668,"date":"2009-11-02T17:46:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T00:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2016-09-12T19:10:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T16:10:12","slug":"ah-that-bracing-ocean-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/ah-that-bracing-ocean-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, That Bracing Ocean Air!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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!<\/p>\n

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\"there<\/a>

there are wizards in Campbell River!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I<\/a>

I thought this was William Tell at first, but turns out it’s Eve!<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"CIMG0029\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

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.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Oscar!\"<\/a>

Oscar!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"CIMG0042\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Willowpoint<\/a>

Willowpoint Village has a grocery store, coffee shop, restaurants, pharmacy, pizza place, and just about any other service you could need<\/p><\/div>\n

\"this<\/a>

this whimsical seaside cottage is almost a clich\u00e9<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"CIMG0034\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Driving<\/a>

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!<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"first<\/a>

first time I’ve seen a wooden inuksuk!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"a<\/a>

a jetty<\/p><\/div>\n

\"????\"<\/a>

????<\/p><\/div>\n

\"this<\/a>

this burn pattern caught my eye<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"I<\/a>

I wear a size nine shoe, if that’ll help with scale<\/p><\/div>\n

\"it<\/a>

it also looks like that writhing mass of snakes at the bottom of the Well of Souls in Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/p><\/div>\n

\"this<\/a>

this is pretty much what I imagined Devil’s Snare (from the Harry Potter series) looks like<\/p><\/div>\n

\"yellow<\/a>

yellow dogwood next to seaweed<\/p><\/div>\n

\"that<\/a>

that is some serious seaweed!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,1085,632,635,5,3],"tags":[731,796,802,707],"class_list":["post-21668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-campbell-river-vancouver-island-bc-canada-travel-bc-canada-travel","category-canada","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","tag-beaches","tag-city-tours","tag-parksgardens","tag-statuesmonuments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}