26 vi 06 After the Bear Watch

Cedars moulded by the wind off the Pacific
































Tidal pool with anemones, starfish, and gooseneck barnacles near MacKenzie Beach

















From my journal:

26 vi 06 1:55 pm leaving HI Whalers-on-the-point for a walkabout to the beach.

Post Canada at corner of Campbell and First catacorner from Coop Foods -- the last has two entrances: the one at the back is a beverage distr.

2:33 met a woman from Quebec taking photos of the [street numbering] signs on trees: "we don't have this in Quebec."

Quite warm; sweating profusely -- me, that is, not the woman from Quebec, although maybe she also.

2:44 reached Mackenzie Beach Road, just past the Clayoquot [Field] Station Botanical Gardens

3:01 on Mackenzie Beach by the Mackenzie Beach Resort -- some nasty stinky but cool looking [?] goose barnacles

[Here follows a sketch of the said barnacles]

3:22 rock tidal pool -- pleasantly warm: bath temperature

3:45 at "magical" island on headland

4:04 at top of rock face north and inland... ground dogwoods

[Here follows a sketch of] cedars on height

4:38 returning past botanical gardens Clayoquot Fields Station [and] Sobo restaurant [which had been recommended to me the night before as a good vegetarian restaurant]

5:35 met Morgane and Roxanne from Lyon and Strasbourg [two or my room-mates]
Evening [another young woman,] Sam from London joined us.

[Spoke at some length with Bjon Malbert from Chalmers University in Gothenburg Sweden. Bjorn is a member of the Department of Architecture and of the Alliance for Global Sustainability, a partner program between Chalmers and several other institutions. Together, he and I tried to repair a pair of sunglasses belonging to an older Dutch woman, who had just bought them earlier in the day; they were designed to fit on prescription glasses and flip up when not needed, but they did not fit properly on the prescription glasses, and when one attempted to flip them up they burst into three or four pieces, which could be fit together, but could not stay together on her specific prescription glasses. After three tries, and three "explosions", we finally resigned.]

Evening -- walkabout Tofino with Tracey, Bo, Bjorn, and Christina and Kristen.

[To bed at about 10 p.m.]