We have been exploring a couple of new parks with Rafa, both on lead and off. Yesterday we went to Cole’s Bay Regional Park for some ball fetching. It was quiet, so Rafa got quite a bit of off-lead time in.





Today, we had a good walk around many trails at John Dean Provincial Park. From the website, the park is “situated on top of Mount Newton on Southern Vancouver Island and overlooks the pastoral Saanich Peninsula, the Gulf Islands, and the Cascade Mountains.” We headed toward a viewpoint, but t was a bit obscured with the still smoky air.








