Rick Molcan:  

april 19, 2010 what an amazing world we live in. less than a week ago i was sitting in the cn tower celebrating after a successful road show for our ontario team, gazing out (and down... quite a ways down in fact!) at the beauty of toronto island. today i am watching the tide ebb and flow, the water sucking and gurgling through the rocks and shells of the beach outside my front door. and it is right outside the door, maybe 20 feet above the high tide mark. a small flock of diving ducks circles and disappears along the waves, larger gulls and canada geese drift further off in the water, waiting, it seems, for the tide to drift out again late this afternoon. i am sitting in a cabin looking out at my wife of almost 25 years (well, 25 years tomorrow) who is capturing the color of the sky as it looked last night, using her watercolors on a smaller 8X12 canvas. last night we sat on the front porch of the cabin we are renting for the week and stared out at the broughton archipelago, mainly hoping to spot a whale. it is a little early in the season but we spoke with two of the locals in telegraph cove yesterday and they had heard on the marine radio earlier in the day that a humpback had been seen. first time this far up island and it is truly astounding in its beauty. we are at the cluxewe resort, located in between port macneill and port hardy. look it up at cluxewe.com if you're interested. looking directly across to malcolm island, complete with postcard white buildings, red roofs and the lighthouse. not enough fog to have the foghorn sound and in fact the weather has been delightful. spring is a couple weeks behind us here and while my cherry trees are in full blossom at home, the bloom is not quite as mature here yet. great time to be here...before the crowds! beyond malcolm island, the north and east of us is filled with countless islands. these eventually give way to the waters of the queen charlotte strait. then more mountainous islands fading into bluish gray at a snow peaked horizon where the coastal mountains reach out to snag passing clouds till they release the riches that skiers like me love so much. i could see us living here in the not too distant future. it would seem to add a lot of traveling time to me but in fact it is only 3 hours from where we live right now, but with a much better view! hope your year is going great. =================================== Happy April Fools Day to everyone I used to know! This is my update from sunny Vancouver Island where I am looking at the cherry blossoms exploding in a snowstorm of white and by the end of the day I will be standing on the deepest snowpack on the planet. It actually dwindled to a mere 624 cm and you can check it out at mountwashington.ca to find one of a very few mountains where you can look out at the ocean before you ski down a run. I feel very blessed to be living in a place where you can go skiing or boarding in the morning and then garden, bike, golf, windsurf or even surf the same afternoon (of course you would have to drive like hell to get over to Tofino to catch a wave before the sun sets!). I see that I have a massive amount of hit...Expand for more