FILOMI Days You Say, eh

July 20-August 5

In our last update I mentioned we were partaking in the Port Hardy Filomi Days.  Since this is such an interesting name (by the way it stands for Fishing, Logging, and Mining) we headed to Carrot Park Saturday morning.  However our first stop was actually to watch the parade.

Remember this is a small town but they sure do have a lot of cool classic cars.  These are just a few that drove by us.  I think we were drooling just as much as Izzy does when these went by!

 

Nice Truck

 

A Cool Ride

 

Not as old as me, well maybe it is

 

A Cool Cadi

They also had several tractors which included a young passenger. Their task was to throw candy to all the kids along the route. Guess who ended up with some salt water taffy?

 

The parade included many fire trucks which came from neighboring towns. It is nice to see such great fire engines for volunteer fire departments. They should be proud.

From the parade we ventured to the park. The day was to be filled with entertainment, food booths, and volleyball contests. We found a great spot to take in all the activities.

 

These girls were part of the entertainment and their ages ranged from 3 to 20.  Pretty darn cute and one was a champion dancer from the province.  By the way this is Highland Dancing.

The Highland Champion is on the left

 

Dancing Wonders

Later in the afternoon several bands or individual singers performed.  This little cutie decided to give the audience some additional entertainment.

Movin' to the music

Such a cutie

 

On Sunday the festivities continued with more of the same however the hardware store boat building contest was taking place. The contest rules are simple. You take materials, build a boat, and then paddle the boat out to a buoy and back. By the way anybody who helps build the boat has to be on it during the floating. The contestants have two hours to build it starting at 10:30 and then they launch at 1:30.

Steve, Izzy and I wandered through the area watching as miscellaneous items were thrown together and end up as a “boat”. A couple of the groups were working hard but it was challenging for us to visualize that what they were working on would end up as a floatation device! Amazingly they all did, well sort of!

A homemade cataraft

The Styrofoam boat

They look like they know what they're doing

This will float?

Guess you could carry lunch with you

Cross Country skis for water, eh

 

The winner was the one that looked most like a boat when being built and the one that just couldn’t get very far was due to the fact that they would work on snow and not water!  Everybody had a great time and the spectators did too!

Heading for the launching point

This looks like a boat, well sort of

Wow we actually got done on time

They hope the Styrofoam holds

 

And they are off

Fun on the water

 

The skis just aren't working out

 

Maybe we should make one of these

The Winners, by a long shot actually

 

 

We headed back to our little oasis after the boaters all got back safely to shore. The view from our window is wonderful!

A couple of days later we went fishing again which of course we can never get tired of salmon or fishing for that matter! Scooter decided to hang out with me again while we were cruising to get to the fishing spot. Along the way we saw several boats that wouldn’t be bad to own!  This one was just a bit bigger than needed!

A little bigger boat than ours, actually it's a cruise ship

Scooter hanging out with me for the ride

 

We have been enjoying the golf course or I should probably say the torture we have been inflicting on ourselves on the golf course!  It is a beautiful setting however if your game is a bit off to the left or the right, you will be carrying less golf balls in your bag. I guess the good thing about that is the bag won’t weigh as much!

Hope it goes where I want it to

Golf course beauty, but also takes your golf balls

 

Actually our stay at the Seven Hills Golf Course has been great especially since Steve was able to trade work for our golf and rent. Well we volunteered to upgrade their electrical set-up for their RV spots. Since we were doing that we also moved the water so both electrical and water would be in the same spot.  I learned how to pull wire the old fashioned way as well as operate the shovel. The shovel became my friend for 4 days. Oh well it was my exercise!!

The Beginning

Izzy is cheering Steve on

The Junior Helper

The Professional at work, Izzy that is

Steve wishes he could bend like this

 

The finished task

The inspector approved

 

Izzy has been having fun as well watching the people come and go, wandering around sniffing as she pleases, and hanging out with her buddy Harley.  Harley is nine years old but still showed a bit of youth with Izzy around. She is also a ball thief as Izzy discovered when we put her ball out for her to play with. It’s a good thing Kevin (her owner and Golf Pro here) knows where she likes to take them, to her bed!

Harley and Izzy

Resting after a round of ball chasing

 

I think they will both miss each other when we leave.

We finished the task and decided to reward ourselves with another chance at catching some halibut and other critters with gills. So stay tuned for more from the fishing fanatics!!