It was wet and rainy on Tuesday October 24th. Arturo had to do some work online, so he stayed behind at the guest house. Chris and I ventured out in the rain. We took a drive down the island and went inland to explore at Englishman River Falls. The thought was we might get out of the rain in the forest. It was a good thought, but it didn't work very well. We still got pretty wet even though we weren't right out in the open.
The forest along the Englishman River is very dense and lush. We wandered around the provincial park for a while and took quite a number of photographs. The camera gear got very wet and needed to be thoroughly dried out when we got back to the guest house in the evening.
We also stopped at a roadhouse along the way and scouted it for the Beer Parlour Project. Although it was not affiliated with a hotel, it probably would have worked. But we never did find time to get back to it, and there were only a handful of patrons there in the afternoon when we stopped in.
Earlier in the day Arturo had texted us and advised that he had forgotten his wallet in the truck, and hoped that we still had it. We played a bit of a joke on him and told him we were in the bar, and sent him a picture of his credit card.
By mid afternoon the temperature dropped off and the rain began to turn to snow. The islanders were all rather dismayed, not only at the fact that they were getting snow, but also that it was this early in the season. We learned that back home in Alberta there was snow pretty much province wide, and that in some places there was as much as six inches. Temperatures in Alberta plummeted to -13 and colder. What we were experiencing out on the island, was pretty tame for us. The snow tapered off as we got closer to Courtenay and the guest house. Pretty much just some slush, which was gone when we got up in the morning.
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