Piers Island

For Spring Break our dear friends, the Freedmans, invited us to spend the week at their beautiful and spacious cottage on Piers Island, a quaint tiny island located north of Victoria, B.C., Canada. We had a glorious time on this little getaway. First, we drove a suburban (which Den found) for the Freedmans up to Vancouver, Wa. where we spent two nights with Den's lifelong friend, Jeff and his wife, Rebecca and their new baby, James (a precious son who took ten years to get here). Sadly, I did not take one picture there. Ahh! We attended church with them (Easter) and then had a wonderful meal with some of their ward friends. The next morning we drove to Port Angeles where we (car included) all boarded the ferry for a 90 minute ride to Victoria. The Freedmans picked us and all our luggage up in their fishing boat in Canoe Cove Marina and ferried us to their gorgous home on the beach. We all had a fabulous time and did not want to come home. The weather cooperated too. Not too cold or rainy, as was predicted.

Bill took us crabbing and prawning. First, the pods attached to buoys and containing bait of salmon, chicken and lures were thrown into the water . Several hours later we would return and retrieve the pods. We caught around 12 crabs (but had to release the females) and countless prawn. Bill steamed or scampied them for us each night. They were divine! Dipped in drawn butter or cocktail sauce the prawn tasted like a cross between shrimp and lobster--out of this world! I must have eaten twenty or more each night.

The kids had so much fun in the hot tub. Can't beat this view.

We awakened to this view each morning

Getting ready to go catch more crab and prawn

More photos to come later ....