Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Salt Spring Island

We arrived on Salt Spring Island on Monday, drove down some narrow, windy roads past various artisan shops (shoppes?), therapeutic services, gardens and farms to the house where we are staying. The kids found a skinny stray calico kitten hanging around at the house, which has been named Cherry. There are three other adults and six more children living here. One of the adults is an amazing cook and doesn't mind cooking for everyone. In fact, he prefers it.
We explored Ganges, which is where most of the people live. We found the public library (hence this post..). We have found a few beach accesses and I have some trails in mind that I want to check out in the next few days. There are little roadside stands everywhere. We all tried fresh figs for the first time yesterday!
pics: the kids at the house; Liam with a huge starfish; Rus with his prized fresh fig that he has been waiting almost 35 years to try. Decadent! ; the kids at the library

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great stuff! THIs is 1 of my favotire places I think I would like 2 see, there was an article a while back in the canadian giographicgood to see thay you are having fun and are ingaged in a great learning experince, all the best j&C G&G