The new digs

Everybody I talked to about moving to Victoria said the same thing, and they were right: "you're gonna love living there." It barely even took a day.

After a day of ferries and waiting for ferries, I arrived at my new home in Colwood late Wednesday afternoon. By the time I discovered the pebbly little beach at Albert Head Lagoon on Thursday afternoon, I could see myself living on Vancouver Island quite happily for some time to come.

Besides driving around looking for cool beaches to chill at, I've been getting to know my new house mates. It's a little more crowded here than I was expecting - there's two people downstairs and two other people besides myself upstairs, plus an extra two people - one on the couch and one under the deck. They're all cool people though, although everyone except the landlady will be gone by the end of the month when her daughter will move in downstairs and two more Royal Roads students will move in upstairs with me.

This morning I went for a walk with my coffee - one house down, there's a grassy path between it and the next house down leading to a little forest with trails in it: Gamble Park. I followed some trails to the sound of water, and came to be standing some thirty feet above a small river that fell down a little waterfall. Across the river from me were a buck and two does. I halted my progress and sat down to listen to the waterfall and admire the deer, who resumed their morning munching after assessing that I was no threat to them. All this, only two minutes from my door. Who wouldn't love it? I'm only chastising myself for neglecting to bring my camera with me, so I'll have to add some graphics to this post some other time.

The only downer of living here is the signs of weather control. Something to do with the airplanes making crosses in the sky and emitting stuff from their tails, according to my landlady. And something that probably wouldn't sound too far-fetched to Sidney Sheldon, author of Are You Afraid of the Dark. In the author's note, he comments that the technology to effect local weather changes is both available to us and in use. So my next blog entery will have a look at humans altering the weather, once I get a chance to do some research.