Heather in BC… & Beyond! 'Living the Baby Boomer Life in BC… and Beyond!

Egmont Saloon Casino Night on November 21 was a huge success as my friend Beverly and I planned, raising approximately $11,000.00. Now I’m not going to tell all our fundraising secrets but I’ll share the basics of our planning and the insights we gained to help us do it again next year – even [...]

Arnie Jones was working on the totem pole for the Egmont Heritage Centre last week while a group of school children toured the museum.

Arnie explained his tools, the method, the wood and the meaning of the pole to the Pender Harbour Community School group which included 3 counsellors, 1 mom and 20 children.

The totem pole [...]

This was an unusual sight for tourists as they watched the beautiful Princess Cruise Lines Ship, “Sapphire Princess” dock in Vancouver Harbour this morning.

The 50-foot long Fin Whale, weighing approximately 200,000 pounds, was impaled by the cruise ship enroute from Alaska to British Columbia. Apparently, this is a rare occurrence although I do remember [...]

DEMSHITZ KAYAKER SAVES CREW MEMBER OF TUGBOAT WHICH CAPSIZED IN SKOOKUMCHUCK!
Watch this incredible video of a kayaker rushing to rescue the men swimming for their lives in the Skookumchuck Rapids as their tugboat overturns while towing a large fuel and equipment barge.
This is amazing footage and the kayaker needs to be recognized for [...]

Good news and bad news coming up!
The good news is that boating season has seriously begun here in Beautiful British Columbia and Kent and I will be heading to Egmont to live aboard our boat, the Jervis Mist, for the next 5 months.
Our base is the dock at my ‘Pop’s place, where we tie and [...]

Last Saturday, Kent, Pop and I went to the Egmont Heritage Center Museum for a ‘Fishing Stories’ discussion panel. Pop was asked to be one of the members and he gladly agreed!
The night before we found his old fish logs from the 40’s which showed the daily catch, numbers and pounds of each species [...]