Time to chill

The day started out with both of us deciding to have a well deserved sleep in. Waking well rested, I immediately started making coffee and as we had some left over bacon and buns, made some egg buns for the three of us. I even had a little bit of left over bacon for Blazer for which Dave had him show us his bag of tricks.

After breakfast Dave gave us a hand cleaning up before he packed up his tent to continue his journey. We exchanged numbers and said our goodbyes as Dave was heading North, while we wanted to explore more of Gibsons and Sechelt .

As the last time we had a shower was in Clearwater, we both felt that we were a bit ripe and headed to the Gibsons Rec Centre to have a shower. Three bucks per person we both came out squeaky clean.

After the showers we continued our day in Gibsons as there was both a Brewery and Cidery that we missed from the day before. Hitting up 101 brewing and distilling. We arrived and ordered a flight on the patio. The facility was fantastic but they allowed children, LOUD CHILDREN!!! On the patio. It almost came to me saying something but thankfully they left relatively quickly, leaving us to enjoy the beer.

Our next stop was Sunday Cider and let me tell you this was a fantastic location. They run an outdoor cider house with the patio space on the front lawn. We had a good chat with one of the cider makers finding out that they spent the better part of a day picking Elderflowers for one of the blends to which I have to say was one of my favourite.

After exploring Gibsons we headed North on the 101 to Sechelt to check out what they have to offer. Getting into town we were looking for Batch 44 brewery and Kitchen which happened to be on the main drag. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had a spruce tip IPA, again this one of my favourite types of spiced beers, we even had to bring some back to camp with us.

I had noticed that there were some totem poles in town and really wanted to see them up close so we went for a walk from the brewery to the sea wall. I love traditional west coast indigenous carvings and artwork. This is something that I have said to Leah that I would like to support a little more. The five totems on the seawall were erected for each of the clans for self government starting with the one in 1997 and the others in 2008. You can tell each of of the carvers had a different style with some focusing on the individual animal or spirt and the others combining them.

Our final stop was another Cidery called Brickers. It was kinda off the beaten path but well worth the effort finding it as they had some very unique offerings. This included a Peaches & Cream as well as an Earl Grey cider. All I have to say is the location and drinks were magical.

We headed back to camp and I cooked up the pasta that Leah had prepped for the trip. Meanwhile while the food was cooking we decided to play golf, thats right you heard right I’m playing golf. Not the game with the clubs but a card game and it turns out it is quite a fun two player game.

While we were playing golf one of the neighbouring groups called us over as she indicated a younger owl was just across the fence calling every 30 seconds or so. There was also a very pissed off robin squawking and dive bombing the owl.