Bamfield

Bamfield, BC, Canada, 23-SEP-2018 – There are many half-written, long thoughtful pieces that are not posted. Pieces on the remarkable people we’ve met and thoughts on the tourist trade, and lots of writing about the places we’ve been, and recently, we’ve been to a lot.

This is a short piece on the town of Bamfield, where Jennifer and I are today.

There are many places that are reminiscent of Cabot Cove where Murder She Wrote took place… or rather that cove was to be reminiscent of other places. This is one such place.

In some ways, it is like the town I lived in as a child, Rocky Point. Here in Bamfield there are 150 year-round residents, about 10,000 during the summer. In Rocky Point, the ratios were different, but most of the ‘‘bungalows’’ were empty all winter long.

Rocky Point is where Marconi set up for his wireless work. Here in Bamfield, the  undersea cable that connected the commonwealth countries entered Canada.

Bamfield is a picturesque cove lined by houses. One half is on the road network, the rest is an island.

There are many marinas, multiple waterfront gas stations, and now that it is post-season, almost everything is closed.

I don’t think Jennifer and I can ever come back. It is wonderful, calm and quiet. It is a beautiful day, sunny with a light breeze. It is never calm nor quiet in season.

Yesterday we were in Euculet  after a few days waiting out weather in Tofino. We’ve seen little wind since then and have motored with mainsail up so we don’t roll in the 2 meter swell. Yesterday afternoon there may have been good wind, but by then we were at anchor in front of the small-boat harbor.

We’d been in Euculet before, and Tofino. I remembered each more fondly than my revisit could sustain.

The west coast of Vancouver holds our interest and we’re figuring out whether to make a trip her next year.

Our plans for next year are changing. The contractor we had an agreement with to ready two houses for sale never did anything across the summer. One of those houses has been vandalized – the remaining copper torn out – the other we don’t know about.

The plan was for those two houses to be readied across the summer and the next three to be readied across the fall. We’d have them all sold by early spring and we’d be able spend January forward in PT until we leave for the next adventure in July – Not BC and AK.

All that is in jeopardy now. It happens.

Tomorrow we head for Port Renfrew. We plan to be in Victoria by the end of the week.

(It seems that we have free Wi-Fi here. No cellular service here, however.)