25 October 2009
Off To Courtney
25/10/09 12:57
We're off on a trip this weekend so getting the weekly email out early. We're running up to Courtenay, about an hour north on the island. We're spending the weekend with a friend Marsha got to know when she was doing taxes last winter. We are looking forward to a couple of days away from the home front. The cats are not going with us. We will leave them a bunch of extra food and water and they'll be fine. Probably will be really mad at us, but fine. Our plan is to be back home in the early afternoon as Sunday evening I have to run into the Nanaimo office. BCHydro is shutting off power to the building at 6:00 and turning it back on by 2:00 am Monday. This wouldn't be a huge problem except that the Nanaimo ofice is where Aviawest keeps some of their critical servers. E-Mail, Web Sites, Backup Systems, and such. I have to go in after 4:00 and bring everything down. Then go back after power comes back on and bring everything back up. Actually I don't mind too much. this is the first overnighter I've done at Aviawest. At NCO I had to do one of these every month or so and in some cases two a month.
In lieu of a long story. Here are a bunch of pictures. (Also to make up for the lack of pictures from last week.) I took the camera to Pacific Shores Resort just north of Nanaimo. It was an overcast day but still you can see how pretty the place is. Most of the rooms have a view of the bay. Pacifc Shores is one of the resorts that are run by Aviawest and one of my main responsibilities.
Happy Halloween.
D&M
One of the best known features of Pacific Shores are the aquariums. This is the one in the lobby. It and the identical one in the Spa are the smaller ones. You can see the fish, anemones, starfish, and urchins, The same kind of creatures we see near the beaches around here.
The Landing is the restaurant at Pacific Shores. In it is one of the coolest aquariums I've ever seen. Two cylinders a couple of meters across and four high ( roughly 6 ft by 12 ft). Connecting them at the top is a trough of the same diameter and about a meter deep (3ft). You can eat lunch or dinner and watch large fish swim next to you and above you. All the fish and other sea creatures are indigenous to this part of the world. The last picture is not of a dead fish. It's a live flounder. I have put my pocket knife next to it for scale.
In lieu of a long story. Here are a bunch of pictures. (Also to make up for the lack of pictures from last week.) I took the camera to Pacific Shores Resort just north of Nanaimo. It was an overcast day but still you can see how pretty the place is. Most of the rooms have a view of the bay. Pacifc Shores is one of the resorts that are run by Aviawest and one of my main responsibilities.
Happy Halloween.
D&M
One of the best known features of Pacific Shores are the aquariums. This is the one in the lobby. It and the identical one in the Spa are the smaller ones. You can see the fish, anemones, starfish, and urchins, The same kind of creatures we see near the beaches around here.
The Landing is the restaurant at Pacific Shores. In it is one of the coolest aquariums I've ever seen. Two cylinders a couple of meters across and four high ( roughly 6 ft by 12 ft). Connecting them at the top is a trough of the same diameter and about a meter deep (3ft). You can eat lunch or dinner and watch large fish swim next to you and above you. All the fish and other sea creatures are indigenous to this part of the world. The last picture is not of a dead fish. It's a live flounder. I have put my pocket knife next to it for scale.