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To learn what this is about, do a search for the Pig War on San Juan Island. |
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Popeye, the Friday Harbor seal |
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British Columbia has a beautiful flag |
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This was home, at the Fort Victoria RV Park just a few miles from downtown |
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Someone didn't get the message about the name of this store :-) |
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At the Royal BC Museum I learned that we weren't the only ones. |
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One of the many peacocks roaming Beacon Hill Park |
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This is more orcas than we saw out whale "watching". |
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Special ops? No, just going whale watching. |
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That's the Coho leaving Victoria behind us, on its way to Port Angeles, WA. |
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MV Coho, built in 1959 (as if you couldn't tell from its colors and lines). |
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The Olympic Peninsula, seen from the Coho on the way to Port Angeles |
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At Ruby Beach, WA |
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Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery wintered in this tiny "fort" |
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Reconstructed Fort Clatsop |
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No, my trailer would *not* fit through the tree. |
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I, however, *would* fit. |
Update: How could I forget. HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!
As the grandchild of a non-Japanese man interned during WWII, I just want to point out that the USA interned some German and Italian Americans, too. [This is part of my ongoing quest to fully inform people about the nature of WWII internments - for national security, not racism - that began when my constitutional law professor stated in class that the US only interned Japanese-Americans.]
ReplyDeleteI used to work with a woman who was a baby in an internment camp. I now work with her daughter.
ReplyDeleteHappy Dominion Day, so I've been told. :)
ReplyDeleteThe plan of Ft Clatsop looks exactly like Ft Mandan, where Lewis and Clark wintered near Bismarck ND.
ReplyDeleteI doubt they engaged the services of a different architect :-)
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