Courage My Love - January 11, 2011

Okay let's start on the upside with a picture. I have been slacking in getting the old clicker out, but I love looking at my older photos, because they always bring back something good...

Okay this is Manion Bay at Bowen Island. One of my favourite spots in the world. Even though it is a short 10 minute ferry trip from the mainland, it is like going to a parallel universe. Well not exactly parallel, slightly out of sync for sure. There is island time, first breakfast and second breakfast, tidal watch, boat watch, sunset watch, sunrise watch, deer watch, you can tell it is a busy place.

I used to sail here back in the day when I had a boat, not an especially wonderful time in my life because I spent most of the time plotting how to tie the anchor to the first mates leg, chuck it over board and make it look like an accident. Never matter, he's gone now, and life is good. I have spent several weeks there since the sailing days, once with the Dunc (best guy friend ever) and a few times with friends in cottages. Well they weren't always in cottages, they came out sometimes. You know what I mean, we rented cottages. Our favourites are the ones at the marina in Snug Cove (doesn't the name Snug Cove just make you feel all safe in the harbour??).

This is the view from up the hill. Sailboats anchored in the bay, the coastal mountains as the backdrop, ferries chugging in and out. It's about as perfect a place as I've ever found. Full of nothing but good reading, good sleeping and good eating.

You know the song, If I had a million dollars, well here is where you would find me, not that a million dollars woud buy much on the island, but a shack on the backside of paradise would do...

If I had a do over of my life there is a couple of things I would have liked to do and places I would like to have visited.

I would have liked to be a detective. Not the cop kind of detective, but the Nick and Nora, or Lord Lynly, Kinsey Milhone or Dave Robichaud type of detective. One that has crazy side kicks, noble but misguided friends, the one that finds some kind of justice, maybe not solace, but just balances the universe a little better than it was.

I would have liked to live on an island. Maybe Bowen, maybe somewhere else, we have a great selection here.

Are the two likes mutually exclusive? Could I be a detective on an island? Seriously, how much crime and mystery can one island have? I guess plenty if it is visited by a lot of people (tourists, summer folk) and boats (sailboats, fishing boats).

It's not like I am dead or dying, these are just kind of things I would do if I had an extra life. I am actually pretty satisfied with what I have done in my life and the places I have been. I probably still have lots of life left so maybe I will get a chance to do both of these things in my life.... and as you know, my life takes courage my love....