Special Mid-Week Edition: Fire and Rain

Standing in the shadow of the photographer (Bruce's brother Jeff) and grateful for the shade at the Pemberton Music festival.

I spent the week before our trip to BC obsessively checking the forest fire and air quality updates in Qualicum Beach, Whistler and Pemberton - our three vacation destinations, all of them affected by the wildfires in BC. 

Three days before we flew out, the air quality in Whistler and Pemberton was as bad as could be measured by the Air Quality Health Index (2 is good; 10 is bad; Whistler was 11) and was 38 out of a score of 50 on the post-(Vietnam)-war-vintage air quality index system. Eeeeep.

Out of the blue the rains fell on July 11, 2015 - first time in almost three months. That miracle coincided with the family reunion in Qualicum and was the more welcome for that. Everyone got better acquainted standing close under shelter from the rain. No one complained about the heat. 

Whistler Mountain, seen from Blackcomb; the kind of alpine splendour you get used to around here.

Details to follow.

Thanks for reading!

Karen