Pender Harbour.

I felt pretty lucky today riding back on the ferry to have had this weekend.  I took my camera as usual,  and managed to capture a bit of it.  This was a good'n

Biggest dungeness crabs I have caught to date ^

uhh..

louis'  Australian conquest 

another good one.

weekend sun.

Fisrt sunny weekend in quite some time;  friends, fishing, bike rides, litte bit a skateboard, awesome..  Enjoyed - thoroughly.  

cory grabbed this photo while i was pulling another nice one out of the trap

depends on your definition of success

Across the river

         So this morning around 10am,  I got a call from my friend louis with the idea to try and get up to Castle Rock and see its majesty up close..  I agreed and after a couple cups of coffee and a sammich me and the mongrel hopped in the car to meet Lou at his aunts house, to load up the canoe we needed to cross the squamish river. 

        

         Upon arrival to the launch spot (the spit) I realized the tide couldn't have been better. Launching was a breeze - Speaking of breezes there was almost no wind, while just the day before it was gusting to 80km..  Luck was on our side?  As we sculled our way to the adjacent marsh, I realized the incoming tide was countering the flow of the river meaning we could head directly across..  Another lucky break.  7 or 8 minuets later we made it to the canal we were aiming for and shortly after that we were out of the canoe headed up the hillside...  I had no fucking idea how difficult this was going to be.  I ended up having to carry the dog up the last 100 meters of the climb which was basically 45 degrees and lightly dusted - with a foot of wet, slippery, snow.  Anger.  Anyways we finally got up to the base and decided that was as far as we were going to go.  Puppies are not built for mountain climbing and I was tired of carrying him and falling on my face.   

It turned out to be a Pretty cool spot. (see photos) We rested, took a bunch of pictures and then begun the admittedly, kind of fun descent. 

        
          All in all it was a pretty good little expedition.  We did find out later, that there's an old logging road that goes around behind the rock that would have been 1000 times easier.. whatever.  The hike built character and I'm pretty sure my dog gained a ton of xp points.   Good day.

           

 

                                        
                                      

Dog shot, obviously..

more, more dog walking.