Steller’s Jay and other news
A steller’s jay flew into the kitchen this morning (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steller’s_Jay). I was in a bit of a panic but not as much as the jay (which resembles a blue jay but is crested and apparently is a member of the crow family). It is also the provincial bird of BC - I just learned that!
Yesterday saw a "romp" or "raft" of sea otters … there were four, likely a mother and three youngsters. When I first saw them I thought they were eels (shows how much I need my glasses) as all I could see was their shiny backs in the ocean. For more information on sea otters go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Otter
Richard arrived here late on Thursday safe and sound (as did my car, the old trusty rust-bucket). The heat wave started on Friday and this weekend the temperature has been around 35 each day. We had a plan to go to Gibsons on the ferry from Horseshoe Bay today but so, it seems, did many others. There was no public parking available and the line-up to take a vehicle on the ferry was long so we nixed that idea. Instead we ate lunch in Horseshoe Bay and then went into Vancouver. Drove out to the UBC campus …. somehow I had pictured it in a more central locale. Later we stopped near English Bay and went for a walk in the Denman St. area (kind of nice to be in a city!)
