Week 3 - Too Much Adorable

One Mumma dog, six puppies, a Christmas basket, and more adorable than you'll know what to do with. You've been warned.

For regular updates, videos, and more on Charlotte and her six puppies you can follow their facebook page. Charlotte and her crew will all be available for adoption in about 3.5 weeks through the BCSPCA Victoria Branch.

Beautiful Charlotte

Holden getting his nails done

Templeton's turn

Templeton

Tallulah Pearl

Tallulah Pearl

She's a modest little lady

Charlotte wanted to be a part of Lambchop's session 

I adore Lambchop's wrinkles and rolls

They're up and walking now - Lambchop

Lambchop

Lambchop

Lambchop stole the show

Lambchop

Holden

Holden

The basket started to tip, but Mumma Charlotte was right there to catch Flintstone

Flintstone

Singing Christmas carols? - Flintstone

Farmer trying out some yoga

Framer is a close second for rolls and wrinkles

Farmer

Farmer

Farmer

Farmer showing off his adorable leg rolls

Farmer

Farmer and Flintstone having bro time

Flintstone trying out his new teeth (they came in this week)

Farmer and Flintstone playing like big dogs

Lambchop having a cuddle with Mumma

Farmer

Those feet though!

Charlotte's Pups

There's more of this adorable going on over on my doggy blog, follow the link to learn about Charlotte's litter and see them grow.

Cape Scott Hike In

On November 28th, myself and three friends hiked almost 24km to the Cape Scott light station on the North Coast of Vancouver Island.  It is a remote and isolated area, and considering the weather this time of year, we found ourselves the only ones hiking in the park that weekend.  We hiked through a light snow/hail for most of the day, and were met by a wind storm of 100km/hr winds as we reached the beaches.

The area was settled in the late 1800's by Danish settlers.  They struggled through a hard life in the area until it was abandoned in the 1950s.  There are several grave sites to be seen as you hike the trail.

The area below is Hanson Lagoon, it was location of one of the attempted settlements, it is where we saw a small pack of wolves playing in the water.  Keith caught this video of the wolves shortly after they noticed our presence in the lagoon.

We found a lot of these lightbulbs on the beach which appear to be from boats.  Keith was alos lucky enough to find two Japanese Glass Floats.

You can see the sideways snow, and the drifts of it on the beach in the picture from Guise Bay below as the winds really picked up.  Luckily the lighthouse keepers, Todd and Harvey, met us not long after this as the sun was setting.  They came bearing "Cape Scott hot chocolate" and a life saving tractor ride up the last big climb.

Cape Scott Taster

Here's a taster from my weekend hiking to the Cape Scott Light Station.  This shot was taken from the dunes between Experiment Bight and Guise Bay, looking back towards Guise Bay.

Hiking in November

We stopped to take in the view from Squally Reach Viewpoint in Gowlland Tod Provincial Park today on a hike.  It was okay I guess... just another beautiful November day on the island.

New York City - Day 4

 Day 4 was another day in which we covered a lot of ground.  To start the day we journeyed over to Central Park.  We wandered around the trails in search of the Alice in Wonderland statue, and marvelled about how much information you pick up from movies and T.V. shows that are filmed in the city.

We finally found Alice just as we were running out of time before we had to head to Greenwich Village to start our food tour.

We did the tour with Foods of New York Tours, and I would definitely recommend it.  We walked around the borough and tried some delicious foods, but were also given a lot of information about the historical neighbourhood. 

Murray's Cheese Shop founded in 1940

Palma Restaurant

"On this site in 1897 nothing happened"

From Greenwich we made our way to Chelsea to check out the Chelsea Market and the High Line.

Bar Nana

Inside Chelsea Market in the Meatpacking District

 The High Line is a decommissioned elevated freight rail line that was built in 1934 to transport goods to and from Manhattan's largest industrial district.  The last train ran in 1980.  It is now public park space.

 We ended the night on the Lightship Frying Pan at the Pier 66 Maritime Bar & Grill, we enjoyed the cool breeze from the Hudson as the sun set over Hoboken.