Crabbing at Fanny Bay Pier, Collecting Drift Wood at Goose Spit, Canoeing at Cumberland Lake Park, Shopping in Nanimo

 Crabbing

 When we went crabbing, the boy,s my dad, Uncle Jamie, and Tante Sacha all went on the dock and put down the crab net and waited to pull it up when a crab went on it.  We had 3 crab traps and some fishing rods.  Alex(our cousin), Mackenzie, my mom, and Megan went on the beach that is there. While we were down on the beach the tide was going out and the beach was getting bigger. when we walked along the edges we found a whole bunch of starfish that were alive and in the sand since the tide was going out. Alex and Megan collected all of them and put them back in the water but around two minutes later the tide went out even more so they were out of the water again so we moved them all once again and kept doing that but every time the tide went out even more starfish were out of the water so eventually we got bored of doing that so we stared digging up clams that were in the sand. While we were digging up claims, my mom found a big crab that was crawling along the beach so we caught it and brought it over to the boys who were on the dock.  The boys caught a hole bunch of crabs but only 8 were big enough to eat in total.  Megan was the first one to catch a crab with a plastic bag on shore.  The rest of the crabs that were big enough to eat were caught with the crab traps.  We had crabs, muscles, clams, tuna and salad for dinner.

by Megan and Owen

The Goose Spit 

On a nice sunny day we all went to the spit which is almost like a small island but is still attached by a little bit to the main land, and that also had a beach that went all around it. As we walked we saw so much drift wood washed up on the beach and a lot of shells. A quarter of the way through some of us had to leave so it ended up just being my mom, Mackenzie, Alex and I (Megan).  Around half way through we stopped at a cool little sun fort that someone made out of drift wood and things that they found on the beach. At the end we all ended up having a huge arm full of drift wood in our hands.

Going to Costco, Canoeing and Camping

Yesterday just our family went to Costco, when we got there all the kids went to the food area a got a whole bunch of samples.  Mom and I (Owen) went canoeing in Cumberland Lake.  We are camping there right on the lake now.  We are still really close to our cousins so they come after school for dinner and to play.   Ben has been volunteering at Cumberland School and Cumberland Lake Park so he can get his volunteer hours for high school.  

Nanimo,BC

Today we went to Nanimo and went to a store called Cabela's which is like an outdoor store. The boys both got some weapons, Ben got a bebe gun type thing and Owen got two knifes and a hatchet. I also got some new very comfortable summer shoes.  My dad got a fishing license so we can go fishing.  Our cousins came over.  We went canoeing again and had fish and chips for dinner that we cooked outside.