Saturna

I'm too busy lately for this thing. I haven't even blogged about last weekend, much less this one. I guess I'd better start at the begining. Last weekend was rather exciting. I spent it over on Saturna at my parent's place which is quite removed from civilization. Much of civilization followed me there though, as there was a huge Canada day lamb BBQ, where more than 1100 meal tickets were sold. The population of the island is about 300 with no camp grounds or hotels on the island. Just B & B's.

The next day we were at East Point, which is the farthest corner of the island from where my parents live (although it only takes 20 minutes to get there). They have some crazy rock formations on the slope down to the beach and this time I didn't forget my camera.

She got sucked into the rock...oh well...I've got 4 more siblings anyway.

The water had way too much fun molding the rocks in this section.

We walked around the point and then we went back up to our cars, but at the time there was a whole bunch of people showing up. They told us that someone had sighted killer whales coming toward the point so we headed back down to the beach. We saw a lot of boats off in the distance - whale watchers and fisheries boats zooming between them telling them when to back off or spread out and not to cut in front of the whales' path. About 15 whales swam by about 15 feet from the shore or so.

Later I went swimming in the ocean, although that was at a different beach. It was a pretty relaxing weekend, and nice to get away from the city for a couple days.