Whiffen Spit

An actual place name;  popular for a walk here in Sooke.  It appears as though its more popular to walk dogs than to take children though.  But Gaelyn was able to tell basically every person that was walking their dog that it was a 'Cute Dog' (even if it wasn't cute to the rest of us......like Banjo, hey Layne?)

Laars is NOT a walker.  He always wants to hitch a ride.  He'd rather pick flowers, but the rest of the gang is always walking too fast for him to enjoy the flowers to his hearts content.

Found a shelter to play on and in.

Laars' find was an acorn and a little carrot.  Mama said 'Yuck' about the carrot so he traded it in for a rock.

This Rock!  Mama got to carry it in my pocket for the rest of the walk.  I think it's still in my pocket!

 

Hey, I lost my shoe!!!

                           'Twas a beautiful walk. 

Fishies

Went to the beach yesterday with the kiddos and Grandma,

They each found a log to call their own.

Anders took over a deserted fort (including Spider Man that was supposed to be guarding the fort but wasn't doing a very good job at it.)
 
Then we headed back to the condo to more swimming.



Since a few of the children rode home in wet suits and sat on their towels, a few of us went straight to the pool.

But we were short a life jacket for Laars.  So while Mitchell ran upstairs to get one Laars insisted on getting in anyways.  And I gave Maret the go ahead.  But Laars insisted on swimming, not just being held!!

 So I said "let him go!" and she did!!!!

This wasn't the first try of swimming today for him, but the clearest that Maret was NOT holding him at all.

3 weeks ago he didn't even want to get into the water, and hated to get his face splashed.  Now he's a fishy.

Alot of Sunshine

We hit Crescent Beach early today to find great parking and a good log to camp up against.  We spent the whole morning enjoying the view of the mountains, islands and ocean, over 15 Great Blue Heron all at one time, the occasional Bald Eagle, turning over the rocks to catch crabs, collecting and organizing rocks and shells, wading in the cool water, and asking "When is lunch?"

Maret did all these sepia pictures.  A variety of us did the colour shots.

He IS NOT cross-eyed.  He's trying to focus on the little white rock he placed on the back of his hand and then flipped up and tried to catch.

This is Laars' 'just a little bit'.

I have no idea what Mitchell was trying to do, but I've seen one of his big sisters sleep with an open Bible on her head!

We packed up at lunch time, went to Crescent Park and spent the rest of the afternoon under the sunshine and shade over there where we ate both lunch and supper and did some exploring. 

The children discovered 'huge tadpoles' over at the pond. 

Lots of turtles and variety of ducks.

And Maret's attempt at Climbing the Wall.

Back to the condo for a dip in the pool, an evening of trying to cool down (Mom's condo is always too warm for me, even in the winter) and get to sleep.

Graveyard

A few years back we discovered this 'Graveyard' in the forest when we first were introduced to Geocaching.

There is art of all kinds here, with interesting quotes, much which has to do with religion, water, and over population.  I do not agree with all the philosophy represented in this forest, but I am including a variety of the art so you get an idea what was in this graveyard.

This one says "It appears as though the whole planet is infected with religion"

An old fashioned telephone

Love this one!!  Not sure who this Old Man is, though.

Then we went to a beach out at Ship's Point to eat supper.

We forgot the bowls, so we used some pails instead!