2006/08/28

 

Flowerpot Island

As the admission to the national park covers two days we decided to take advantage of it and visit Flowerpot island (part of Fathom Five National Marine Park) while our ticket was still good. The Blue Heron Company offers a couple of alternatives to aid in your visit to Flowerpot island. You can either take a cruise with a stop at the island or take the zodiac shuttle to the island. We opted for the shuttle as dogs were allowed on the zodiacs and Zaph wanted to come. The island was named for the “flowerpot” shaped rock formations found on it’s shoreline.

This is one for “Isn’t the world a small place”. On Sunday an Titanium trailer (same year and model as ours) pulled in 2 spaces away from us and Ed noticed that they were missing a hub cap. From personal experience he knows that the manufacturer will replace the hubcap and give you new wheel nuts so he decided that if he saw the people he would stop and tell them. After his run on Monday morning he noticed that the people were outside so he stopped. The small world part is Wayne (from the other Titanium) grew up in the same neighbourhood as I did and was actually in the same year at the same high school though we were in different streams.


The zodiac boat we took over to Flowerpot Island.


One of the ship wrecks we went over on the way to Flowerpot Island.


A second shipwreck.


People snorkling over on of the shipwrecks.


Big Tub Light


One of the Flowerpots


Part of the shoreline.


The big flowerpot.


Another view of the shoreline.


The buildings near the lighthouse. Volunteers live here during the summer.


This little guy demaned to see Zaph and give him some pets.

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