Mail and Trading Cards

 Hullo!! I got some mail!!

In case you didn't now... we had a postal strike (again) at the end of September, for several weeks, so the mail has been all messed up...

The first postcards is from... Iceland!!!

Jerry and Ben went to Iceland!! And had a great time from the sounds of it.

Iceland is definitely on the LBBL... Little Bear Bucket List...

Next up... a postcard from Yosemite!!

It's from Little Fox! Sigh... hiking, great food and great local beers.... yes, that would be fun too!

I mean, really though... I can't complain (too much). I've had a tonne of adventures this year (so back-logged that we are still posting summer adventures!).

Oooh... and we found these at a local grocery store!! They are Vancouver Island Trading Cards!!!

They are brand new and there are 102 cards to be collected... 10 trading cards in a packet. Huh...

So, obviously we bought a packet... let's look inside...

Yep... definitely Canadian!!

Oooh... the Marmot!!! We heard on the news that the Vancouver Island marmot colony has increased from around 30 or so a while ago, to over 300!! Making a comeback... Go Marmots!! The card says it is one of the rarest mammals on earth.

Oh and you see that gold banner at the bottom... that's a "First Print" banner... excellent!!

These are cool! What else do we have?

Earthquake... yep... we can get those.

Haunted Room? Also true though...

Nanaimo Bar!!!

Robin... hmph... I think they are everywhere!

Tree Frog??

We have tree frogs?? I did NOT know that!!

Sea Glass!!

I know a certain Mouse who would be all over sea glass...

Ummm... Friendly Dog? I suppose this is true... but Sequoia is a friendly dog and doesn't live here!

Fisherman... yep, we get those too...

And a ferry!! Life blood of the coast!!

And there's a QR code that takes you to the website, where you can see ALL the cards in the series... apparently this was all designed by a local guy. Cool.

Of course they keep getting sold-out online. Hmph...  

A Crab Feast

 Hullo!! We are back on the boat after having lunch on Thetis Island... will our crab traps yield anything? We hope so... cause the prawn traps were a waste of time!

It's getting quite choppy out there...

With a lot of wave spray!!

That's one of the prawn traps after being pulled up... nothing... nada... zippo... not a good spot.

Last time, Scott went out, they had great luck with prawns... not this time. Sigh.

But crabs... OMG... crabs!!!!

We have to measure them all to make sure they are big enough and then make sure we don't take any females... only the males...

That little guy is trying to get away!

Oh wow...

This one is a bit small...

But this one is a good size.

So into the bucket it goes!

These are Dungeness Crabs... there were some Rock Crabs too but they are small and not worth keeping.

So many crabs!

Oh wow... the bucket is filling up! We are limited to how many each person can have... There are 3 fishing licensed people on board so we can have quite a few.

Watch those claws!

Some are trying to get away...

Wow... what a feast!

And then we headed back... going past that famous actress's pier again...

And crossing the 49th parallel...

And now we... sigh... kill the crabs. This was not pretty. Scott basically hacked their undersides in half and then ripped each half off the shell. I could hear crabs screaming in my stuffie mind and...

Errr... Hello, Dory. This is Dory. She is a St. Bernard. Or a Bernese Mountain Dog. Or something. She is a slobber-fest and...

Ummm... do you want some crab? Cause they are over there... and...

Yes... well... note to self... do not let human put this stuffie down, even for a moment...

Cause Dory obviously thinks that this stuffie would taste way better than crab... eek!

The crab massacre is continuing...

This is goin to be a LOT of crab!

Like a lot...

And there are the empty shells.

And then we cooked them up and had a crab feast!!! Sooooooo yummy!!!!