This has been a festive weekend in Sidney. Yesterday, was an all-day sidewalk sale downtown (where we the current sit is located) as well as the first day of the North Saanich Flavour Trails Festival, a festival that offers a number of activities to celebrate local farmers, fishers, food producers, etc. Today, was the second day of that festival as well as an open house (donations appreciated) at the BC Aviation Museum.
After walking the 9k Flight Path Trail with Rafa yesterday morning, we chose to stay in Sidney and walk through the Sidewalk Sale and down near the seaside on a lovely, warm summer day. We didn’t photo the sales items, but here are some pics of the active town yesterday.
Today has been rainy, but after a mid-morning walk with Rafa through some Sidney neighborhoods, we went out to check out a bit of the other events that were going on. First, we headed to the Sandown Centre for Regenerative Agriculture to watch a sheep herding demonstration. This is something that we had seen on TV at a housesit in Scotland but had not yet seen in person.
Today’s sheep herding demonstration was a pretty low-key affair, as the sheep were not familiar with dogs, but the human part of the sheep herding demonstration was very informative and is on his way to the Canadian national competition with his border collies.
into the Sandown Centre for Regenerative Agriculture
to instruct the dog on how to move the sheep.
They were going to try to get them in the pen,
but there were too many.
From the sheep herding, we drove not even 10 minutes to the British Columbia Aviation Museum to check that out. We entered by giving a donation of a five Canadian dollar bill that we still had from last year’s BC housesits.
The museum is on the grounds of the Victoria International Airport and consists of two hangars, a classroom, a restoration workshop, and a gift shop. It was established in 1985.
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