Category: Travels in the Lower Mainland

A Different Kind of Pipeline Failure Picture this. A glorious summer day, Marie and I are walking out on a jetty – a pipeline actually – that stretches four kilometres into the ocean. Clouds make gorgeous skittered patterns across an immense blue sky.  The sun has not been up long and the muted colours are […]

Originally posted on this day in 2010 Marie’s calling me, “Simon, quick, I think I’m looking at otters.”  As I arrive on the deck, the sleek creatures are climbing from the ocean.  I can see four, no perhaps five.  On all my previous encounters with these adorable creatures in the wild, there has been only […]