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June 4th - a very special day for us as our son Brandon was born on this day 31 years ago. Sure hope he had a great day.
It is also the end of week 3 of our adventure and we got to spend the day touring with Brent and Kelly who are awesome tour guides.
We started the day at Cathedral Grove - a park of the most magnificent trees we have ever seen. It is a grove of giant Douglas Firs that HR MacMillan set aside to be saved from harvesting. There is a path winding through the grove. The largest trees are said to be 800 years old but most are 300 year old growing after a fire went through the area. There were also giant maple trees with the leaves being probably 10 inches across.
There was one tree that had a cavern in it that was big enough for Hobbits to live in it!
We wanted to bring some seedlings home but we had tried growing Douglas Fir before and it didn't work. Guess we will just have to come back for a visit to see them again.
Off to Coombs we went for lunch. Now I am not exactly sure how this got started but Coombs is quite famous for their "goats on the roof". And believe it or not they have a restaurant/gift shop whose roof is made of grass and there are actually goats up there grazing away. It was quite comical.
On the way home we stopped at a beach in Parkville and even found some sand dollars. The tide was out and you could walk a long way out. It was funny to be walking on a beach and look in the distance and see a mountain with snow on it.
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