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Stories and photos from Powell River, BC.

A Sourdough on the Sunshine Coast: The Trade

Posted by on Mar 14, 2017

A Sourdough on the Sunshine Coast: The Trade

Share this!We have been offered a 33’ C&C Sailboat as trade for our beloved lady, the Audrey Eleanor. Our 1948, 54’ wooden yacht is wearing us down. For ten years we have drained the bank account attempting to maintain her in the custom she seems to demand. In turn we hoped to preserve her. She is high, high maintenance gal. Forget simply exfoliating her bottom once a year at $1,200 per haul...

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A Sourdough on the Sunshine Coast: A Long Hot Summer

Posted by on Jan 27, 2017

A Sourdough on the Sunshine Coast: A Long Hot Summer

Share this!In the previous story, the Captain and I were able to secure a piece of Paradise in Stillwater by the Sea on the Sunshine Coast of B.C. Stillwater is located 20 km south of Powell River. The property consists of a house, which we have rented out, six R.V. sites complete with tenants(I come to refer to this as the refugee camp), and we have two and one half gorgeous acres of Old...

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A Sourdough on the Sunshine Coast: The Diagnosis

Posted by on Dec 1, 2016

A Sourdough on the Sunshine Coast: The Diagnosis

Share this!Kaitlin, my daughter and I return to Vancouver after a hot and sunny Labour Day weekend spent in Powell River on the Sunshine Coast. Catching the B.C. Ferry at Saltery Bay, the peace and quiet of Powell River falls behind and the rush of reality builds. Driving down the lower Sunshine Coast through Sechelt and past Gibsons, B.C. the traffic grows and the race is on! Lines of cars and...

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A Sourdough on the Sunshine Coast: Kaitie Leah, Part 2 – Stillwater

Posted by on Nov 5, 2016

A Sourdough on the Sunshine Coast: Kaitie Leah, Part 2 – Stillwater

Share this!We have spent ten days, ricocheting from eye specialists to neurologists in the beautiful, but hectic City of Vancouver, B.C. Kaitlin my daughter has gone blind in one eye, with threat of total blindness due to an undiagnosed anomaly in both eyes. She has yellow dye injected into her veins most days, her pupils are dilated most days as well. It is an attempt for the specialists to...

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A Sourdough on the Sunshine Coast: A story of Kaitie Leah

Posted by on Oct 6, 2016

A Sourdough on the Sunshine Coast: A story of Kaitie Leah

Share this!This story takes us to the Sunshine Coast via an intervention in life that happened right in the middle of a sunshiny day. We had no thoughts of pending trauma as we sat around the crackling spruce fire that afternoon, our lives would change in hours and nothing will ever be the same again. I bring this story to you because the outcome of this medical investigation affects 100,000...

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