Amazing Parksville Sand Castle Competition Aug. 4/25. These are some but not all of the displays. You have to enlarge the pictures to get the detail that went into the sculptures. To do that click on “gailstraveladventures.net” that is in the email, to take you to the website. From there you should be able to click on the pictures to make them big.

Visit to Hand of Man in Maple Bay, an amazing museum of artifacts and stuffed animals Aug. 3/25

Brown’s Bay Resort August 22-September 5/25

This is predominately an RV Park on the waters of Seymour Narrows. It is just north of the site of Ripple Rock where the world’s largest non-nuclear explosion happened in 1958. Because of that explosion and consequently the elimination of the major hazard to navigation, there are many ships of all different size and purposes, that travel up and down the coast using this route. Below are some of the ships that we saw pass through. Also included are scenes in the park including some very cool wood carvings. Besides being a RV park, it also has deep water docks and a very good restaurant (as well as a fish plant).

The drive in is on an old logging road. On the drive, probably because it is a little rough, there are signs saying how far to go.

In between we drove up to Telegraph Cove to see the damage and progress that has been made since the fire that destroyed a part of the boardwalk, cafe and pub and the Prince of Whales offices and museum as well as a couple of houses, on New Year’s Eve 2024.

I will send some more sights from Brown’s Bay in another posting. I believe I have overloaded this one so it is being difficult.