So there is 2 days and some odd minutes and seconds left. It's been a long wait from hunting season until now...FISHING SEASON!!!!

When Colby was born, in 2001, it was the beginning of hunting season. This year, when the baby will be born will be at the start/peak of fly fishing season! If we had been planning to have another child I would swear it was a conspiracy that everytime it coinsides with either hunting or fishing seasons.

Not to worry! I have a wonderful wife who understands my need to be out in the great outdoors getting back to nature... I think she does anyway.... She is very understanding in any case...or maybe...she's holding out to hit me with something like... I want the house painted or something like that... Oh well, at least I get to go fishing who cares what the cost! RAIN GODS please wait until Monday if you please! I don't feel like getting wet, but I will for the good of the season! Not to mention the fact that I have all the gear so I better use the damn stuff!

So Adam Colby and I decided to go for a drive today to look for some potential fishing spots.

All in all was a nice drive, took about 3.5 hours, I hav e lived in Nova Scotia for most

of my life and never thought of driving to where we went. We went to exit #8 off the 103 and headed towards windsor then cut down the #12 towards Ross farm and nded back at exit #9 then home again. Colby was very good. He read the GPS the whole way home telling us what exits we were at. Well, Barry these pictures are for you bud! You should have been there. There will be 3 guys in that river in another few weeks fishing, fishing, fishing!

OK OK. I'm caving in to peer pressure and putting up a post. I just got back from a work trip to vancouver and of course I went skiing at Whistler while I was there. It was a fantastic trip, I had fresh powder both days and first tracks on the blackcomb back glacier one day. It felt like heliskiing because the snow was perfect and nobody else was in sight. Drunken haze at night of course with lots of time spent in the hottub.















This is a picture of the backside of Whistler taken from Blackcomb. The trails you see are only the ones that wrap around the side/back, the main hill is still to the front.














This one is a picture of the top of seventh heaven on blackcomb, the groomed trail that you see is the easiest trail down from the top (well almost top, there is another set of lifts that goes up higher, but no easy trails from there) of the mountain.















This is just down from the top of the glacier chair lift, this is a blue trail area, including the area down the face of the cliff where you see the guy by himself. needles to say I didnt go on any double blacks. I went by one double black that had a 100 ft drop that you had to jump. The single blacks had about 20-50 drops but had easier landings.

This is a picure of whistler village and the valley, taken from near the bottom of the mountain. And yes you do ski all the way to the village. The longest run (green) from top to bottom is around 10km long.