Day 6: North Pender Island, 10 km walk, sunny 16

Turbidity & Tombolo!

Its been a pretty nice day here all things considered. Cool up in the trees where our camp is setup, we have largely lived on the beach where the sun usually has been warm enough and the vistas magnificent. 

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Unable to sleep late we were up and having tea on the beach pretty early sort of enjoying the cool early morning air. Looking across to Salt Spring Island and the main island there were some amazing cloud formations. 

As I write this later in the day, the massive clouds continue to float past in a similar trajectory dropping their rain load when it suits them. So far not here! 

While we waited for it to warm up we decided that we should walk into the National park and check out the lake then walk in search of drinking water as our supply is running a bit low. The lake walk was nice enough with some good hills to help get our lower limbs moving again...too much good food and wine! 

A cool swamp too...you know the type from movies?Wwhere the body is placed and never found.

We did eventually find water and the park ranger told us that the turbidity levels were good, but that we should boil it first. He also told us that he wouldn't be responsible if it poisoned us...no kidding, he said this. Turbidity...such a good word seldom used outside the realms of science.

Sitting at the beach having a meal of left overs...good left overs, I asked a Rob if he knew the word for the sand bar running out to the island.

To my surprise he did...a Tombolo. Ha! Impressive. Not many know the answer to this if it ever comes up. We will get along just fine in Spain.neil would have known this, but then he too was trained as a geographer. By the way Neil and Sarah, well done walking today in -7. Of course Ken would think that a winter heat wave had arrived in Regina!   Hey Ken, I caught up with you this morning. Two things; well done on getting your first photo of an actual person...of course she had walked Camino so she doesn't really count;-) What's with all the photos of dead critters? There's a story there. Enjoying your posts and I hope the blister heals quickly and that the beer is well chilled!  Thinking of you...well done!

Now to post this and get back to cloud gazing!

There's work to be done!