Activities

Cold Water Swimming

What is cold water swimming and why am I obsessed with it?! Cold water swimming has gained popularity in recent years and for good reason, it has a huge array of benefits, both mental and physical!

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whale watching deck

The Deck

10 days. 2 people. 800 square feet… …and one awesome whale watching deck If you’d read my earlier post about the Great Bear, you’ll know that our plans to build a deck were postponed earlier in the year due a weather event that thwarted the delivery of the materials.  Myself and Steve are not ones to leave a job unfinished so…

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The most photographed mountain in Iceland, with waterfalls at its base.

42 Hours of Daylight in Iceland

What would you do with 42 hours of daylight in Iceland? Now this blog must be prefaced with the fact that we did not fly all the way to Iceland for just 2 days and similarly, we are not advocating that you can ‘see it all’ in two days. This is simply all the time that we had after we…

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map to squamish

The Deck that Became an Outhouse…

  We were on the phone to Janie, good friend and lead researcher at the North Coast Cetacean Society. She was confirming what we had feared, The Barge Didn’t Come. Me and Steve were meant to be building a deck for the new research outpost on Fin Island. We had driven rather than flown so we could carry all our…

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