Errington Farmers Market

Saturday mornings is the Errington Farmers Market, held at the Community Park, which in itself is very beautiful, with great walking paths through the forest.

Loads of stalls with organic everything, fresh produce, baked goods, crafts, wood furniture, etc - all good things from the countryside.

There had to be as many dogs as people, all duly on their leashes and behaving beautifully.

Locals built this amazing stage where these 3 entertained the crowd all day. It is an amazing structure, beautifully crafted, and the music was great.

Fun on Stanford Avenue!

Every year Oceanside hosts Show and Shine, a huge antique car show, and the first event of the weekend is a Shine at the local A & W, followed by the entire group cruising by our house on Stanford. We take our lawn chairs, as do all the neighbours, sit at the side of the road with our wine, and wave to all the drivers.




These are amazing vehicles, spit and polished to a fine gleam, with very happy owners proudly beaming behind the wheels.

Cars, trucks, vintage motorcycles and even an antique firetruck went by.

It is a fun event every year, and next year Ter and Lar will be joining us!!!!!

back to Nanaimo

View of Nanaimo harbour from the water. Some of Nanaimo areas are kind of spotty, but the north end and the waterfront areas are just gorgeous.

Heading back into the harbour - lots of boats, large and small, and float planes everywhere. This is where grand daughter Amber flew in when she came from Vancouver one time.

This fabulous Mexican restuarant is new in the harbour - we will be back, as they guarantee the BEST margaritas (of course, they won't compare with Valorie's.....).

And this floating Fish and Chip place is new too - we have lots to come back to see and do another day.

Dinghy Dock Pub

This is the ferry that took us to Protection Island - a very scenic 10 minute ride from the Nanaimo harbour.

The Island has 400 permanent residents, but being small, only about 40 cars, while most of the residents use golf carts! No stores on Protection, just the pub, a marina and gas pumps, as lots of residents have boats and everyone goes to Nanaimo to shop and do business.

The pub floats on the water and has amazing views all round. There are lots of music events held there, and it is huge, so can accommodate large groups.

We had amazing fish and chips and tempura shrimp.......yummy! The couple behind us were from San Diego and were newlyweds!! If you look closely, you can see a tiny stuffed bride and groom on their table, which they proudly carried everywhere with them! Congratulations!

Nanaimo fun

Today we went with Maggie and Ingrid to the weekly market at the Nanaimo waterfront. An amazing array of foods, crafts, plants, and great people

It was a lovely sunny day and the harbour was bustling with activity.

The Nanaimo waterfront is really wonderful - a seawalk begins downtown and goes for miles along the water, through parks and has restaurants, coffee shops and great views.

Then we waited in the floating waiting room to take the little ferry to Protection Island for lunch at the Dinghy Dock Pub!