Guemes

Have a foggy memory of being at Peace Arch park when I was a youngster living in White Rock. Looks so peaceful in this pic...........

 

.....but our reality was 2 hours to cross the border into the U.S. on this Victoria Day long week-end.

After we crossed it was barely an hour to get onto the ferry to.......

......wait for it.......(a long 5 minute ride)....

..... Guemes Island.

Ritsue has met her match?......ya, a little quieter over here compared to the busyness of Vancouver. 

This songbird announced our arrival.

First stop was the General store, a whopping 20 seconds from the ferry. I was feeling a burger and when I saw the ancient grain burger on the menu, I new I needed a burger with an ancient grain bun. Turns out, well, you can guess. (I put on a brave face and ate my "healthy choice.")

The view and the brew more than made up for it, lol.

.....lovin the driving down the roads of Guemes and not seeing a soul. (The year round population is under 1000)

....a much needed break from movie jail.

.....yes, that's seaweed, and apparently you can eat it according to the seaweed expert!

......how many people get to see this outside their front window......

......lot's of shoreline to explore....

......I remember driving by this the night before way up in the trees, was wondering what was down there.

The mandatory, we're the only people in the world, pic.

Probably the only unpleasant sight of the week-end. There were balls of caterpillars in a lot of the surrounding trees. 

It was a 1.8 kilometer stroll from the General Store to our place, all along the beach.

Peachy beachy..

Our home for 2 nights, para-para-paradise.

Day 2 we headed onto the mainland, first stop.....

Deception Pass......

Whoa, look at those kayakers way down there.

We climbed down below for a different vista.

Spotted a seal monkeying around down there.

In the afternoon we headed to small town America, Anacortes. Sleepy this time of year, but in another week when the Memorial Day week-end approaches it will be full on tourists for the summer.

Wish you were beer at the Rockfish Grill!

This time I made sure the mushroom Swiss burger had some beef! Delicious!

Small town patriotism.

Sun setting on our little getaway.

You dream of owning a place like this, but the real estate is as pricey as Vancouver, and in U.S. dollars!

Someone is very proud of herself......

....and she should be, made her first campfire, woot! woot!

Hot stuff!

Uncle Buck seemed sorry to see us leave......

The mandatory Anacortes downtown selfie......

We'll be back!?

That's some parking spot.....

Went to White Spot for dinner at Market Crossing in Burnaby. I have waited 50 driving years for this parking spot. I made sure my chair was facing out the window, and yes I did admire it, uhhhhh, very many times.

 

Well, it's been close to a month since we saw an amazing northern light display in the lower mainland. We were in Port Moody on this night. Spectacular!

I have never seen any color other than greens in the past. (and that was in the Okanagan)

It was moving day from Port Moody, and my task was to take this generator to our next location. This is how I found it, and I had to wait until the generator operator came and unsorted this wiry mess.

Another 911 emergency, lol. I had to grab these bolts from Keslow for the camera department. (How much of a 911?, hmnnn not sure, but this is one of the transpo department chores of the day.)

The next day it was another 911 to Amazing Ape Productions in Langley for the make-up effects department. I speedily transported these femur bones to set, another save by the might Teamsters.

We spent an afternoon at Cleveland Dam in North Vancouver.

That's a long way down. That's not much water coming down the spillway for this time of year, concerning.

The next morning we shot a scene at Lynn Canyon, also in North Vancouver.

There are so many one-offs in my job. This was one of them. I had to go to our studio and pick-up this cougar for the visual effects department.

Filming at Riverview, we had an unexpected vistor at our circus.

Westlawn at Riverview, just as I remember, sad.

The homes on our "hero" cul-de-sac are constantly evolving. (The actual story spans over many years.)

Another, do not like working late into the evening, but the benefit is no traffic in the Cassiar Tunnel, pic.

OMG, this is not the same San Jose Bonaventure Hospital I remember from the Good Doctor. I had to go to the Bridge Studios, so I decided to take a peek. It's been transformed into a run down hospital for another show, and apparently for an upcoming series that will film there, Watson.

......hmnnnnn

Was once the Good Doctor's.....

Then I went into Stage 4. This is all that is left of what once was the Good Doctor's doctor's offices.

You have to have horses? if you are going to film some scenes at the now defunct Flavelle Sawmill property in Port Moody.

As you would expect, this property will eventually be condo towers.

A lot of the sawmill machinery was still there lying dormant.

Inside the mill, looking out a future condo window towards Burrard Inlet.

Fraturday at the cul-de-sac.

Pretty striking cloud action.

The not random, coming home on a fraturday, 03:51, starting to get light out, pic.