lauchlin wrote:
ellodrith wrote:
BCGunner wrote:
Island folk are always welcome to come over once we have everything setup for a shoot!
I'd love to, but in my case the cost would preclude more than maybe once a year. It's a couple hundred dollars for a quick weekend visit
cheers
Jeff
It would not be hard to find enough Islander there was 8 of us on Sicker mountain yesterday .I had a unofficial FT course in my back yard 18 years ago never had a problem finding people that wanted to shoot...............
From the sounds of it you should be setting up an FT group on the Island and we would be travelling over there.. Seems to be a problem getting enough people interested here on the mainland. Though what was that line from the ball movie, Morris? Build it and they shall come.
Be great to get together with the Islanders regularly. But, it's not just the cost that makes it difficult The bloody, time it takes to go the 51 miles from my place to Lauchlins is ridiculous. And I'll be long dead and gone before the isolationist Small island Nimby's on Galiano Island and the rest allow a bridge. Hell. They even have an group of 12 islands whose land use acts prevent any connecting bridges.
Quote taken fron the Colonist paper:
Residents of Gabriola Island will be asked in the new year if they support a bridge to Vancouver Island.
But the proposal has angered the Islands Trust -- the agency responsible for regulating land use on 12 of the Gulf Islands -- whose community plan prohibits bridges connecting member islands with each other, or their larger neighbour.
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They don't want any bridges but they sure want us to keep subsidizing the cost of their interIsland ferries, which are all bigtime money losers.
Will be lookin forward to the HotTub parties and bed & breakfast at Brents place next year