september 10, 2018
heather was having another one of her birthdays. we hadn't decided how to celebrate it yet. it was friday or saturday and her birthday was monday and i suddenly had this idea--we should go on a quick spontaneous adventure. heather was game, and so we did it. i gave her some options and she wisely picked tofino. i went shopping for our foods saturday night and ended up buying a bunch of random things from the bakery counter including a box of assorted macarons and some other yummies. i also got us some specail juice. was it guava? it could have been. there were carrots and possible plums and nectarines? i may be making this stuff up...anyways, after church on sunday i loaded up sahib with some blankets and pillows and food stuffs and what have yous and drove to north van and picked up an excited heather. we added her stuff to the load and we headed to horseshoe bay ferry.
i don't remember much about the ferry ride except for possibly not allowing heather to read her book. all i know is that we were in our euphoric, 'we're going on an adventure' mood and that the world appeared to be our oyster and that continued as we arrived in nanaimo and started on our 3 hour drive to tofino. then just outside of coombs traffic on our side of the highway was stopped for what seemed like forevvvvveeeeer. and that's all that happened. eventually we made it to tofino after another traffic stop on a high pass. it was dark but we managed to find our camp ground at mackenzie beach. mackenzie beach was amy's council and we were grateful for her wise advice. we found a spot by the stairs to the beach and it wasn't long until we took the stairs down to the beach in the dark to check it out.
it turns out the waves were full of phosphies and they were crashing on the shore in the blackness. we took off our shoes and played in it. phosphies, i.e.bio luminescence is one of those fantastically magical things and i think i'll never stop marveling and delighting in it. after we had our fill of phosphie fun we dried the wet sand off of our feet as best we could and made our way back up the stairs. we changed into our pjs and made our bed up in the back of sahib the habeeb. the thick matt that doug and delanie gave me fits just about perfectly in the back of sahib. there's just a place on the side where i needed to squish some other soft padding. we rested our heads on a slight incline and all of our stuff fit on the front seats or the cavity under the flattened seats, where your feet usually go. i it was very cozy. outside it was raining off and on. inside we were cozy and happy and snugasabugish.
one small flaw in our sleeping in sahib plan was made apparent in the morning when heather had to get up to go to the washroom and the lights flashed on and blinded me when she opened the door. haha. i was awake after that but heather returned and tried to sleep. eventually we got up and explored the beach in the daylight and in our pjs. it was a stormy day and the rain came hard off and on.
the beach had rivers running through it and sand bars. here is heather in varying distances from me.
all the stormy weather had thrown all this stuff up on the beach.
beach fashions.
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