Camping at Rathtrevor Provincial Park on Gorgeous Vancouver Island, BC 

Thanks, yeah forgot about Lasqueti the smaller, lower island in front of the larger Texada, the mountains of Texada are quite high at the south end, up over 2500 feet so you see lots of it from that vantage point. goo.gl/maps/ggSmCpXaEwdP2MAe8 Last year we took the ferry over from Powell River to Texada. Has a nice little campground at Shelter Point. Cheers, Ray

Same here! Cheers, Ray

Yes they are!

Wow, that's way more than I would have thought

@@LoveYourRV Most are in BC and AB with a handful in QC

I'd guess not many are in phone booths anymore.

@@LoveYourRV not traditional phone booths, no. Primarily in rural areas with poor or no cell coverage............. or BC provincial parks apparently.

Thanks. No, they are all dry camping as far as I could see, but there are hot showers, bathrooms and a dump station.

@@LoveYourRV oh ok, thanks. They still have the washrooms and showers closed here at the Malahat Mountain Meadows,not that we need them, but there were quite a few campers who were out of luck. Management is very paranoid of COVID.

Yeah, they guy told me the name but its not in the video clip I showed.

Try late October like we did, no wasps then. :)

We were there last year, in September, the weather stayed unseasonably warm and dry the wasps were loving it. @@LoveYourRV

Yup, August and September is wasp season on Vancouver Island. Some years worse than others. The drones are done with jobs for the season .They have nothing to do but fly around crazed and starving. We are currently in Gorge Harbour, Cortes Island, tons here right now. www.wasp-removal.com/wasp-lifecycle.php "Once the wasp nest has produced new queens and these have spun their silk caps ready to pupate, the nest is then essentially on a countdown to death. The timing of new queen production varies from year to year, but it is synchronised, so all the nests do it at the same time. This is to ensure that there are enough drones and queens to mate successfully. The adult worker wasps that are left in the nest now have no food source because there are no wasp larvae in the nest to feed the adults with the sugar solution. This is when wasps can become a problem as they go looking for other food sources and often cross paths with humans. These wasps are looking for any source of food that contains sugar, so, for example, a pub garden with pints of beer or other sugary drinks and food lying about will be a target for hungry wasps. As autumn arrives and the weather gets colder, the wasp's food source diminishes. The remaining adult wasps and old queens die off due to starvation. By winter most average size nests have died, but occasionally a large nest will survive longer if enough food is available."

Nice park Bere Point, I remember visiting in my old camper van back in 2007 and saw Orca rubbing on the beach. Yup we are wintering at our regular summer park in Campbell River, least its a pretty spot. :)

Looks like its just for BC seniors - bcparks.ca/fees/senior.html

I use a decent quality Sony camcorder, gives great footage and very convenient as I don't need to carry around a bunch of lenses - www.loveyourrv.com/love-your-rv-gets-a-new-4k-camcorder-sony-fdr-ax53/

Not sure, but they do look well fed. :)

That’s what I was wondering. I’ve never seen wild rabbits with any color other than light brown. I thought only domesticated rabbits were different colors. Interesting! They do look well fed!

@@kristiejacobs4854 Snowshoe rabbits are white in the winter, but yeah I have never seen rabbits like that except ones that were tame. I'm sure the color variant in tame rabbits comes from somewhere, possibly a recessive gene in their distant past of being wild, but I sure don't know. They a pretty, whatever they are.

Yeah, I can see that looks quite a bit like some of our family.

@@LoveYourRV better not be your sister 🤔

The USA/Canada land border is closed to non-essential travel both ways, but I think Canadians can fly to the USA for non-essential reasons. We are spending the winter at an RV PArk in Campbell River on Vancouver Island - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4wW32-VGTgA.html Cheers, Ray

@@LoveYourRV i see ok thnx. did u make or buy the skirting for around the trailer lower edge.

Yes, I bought the EZ Snap Skirting. I have installation videos on the website - www.loveyourrv.com/tag/winter/

@@LoveYourRV I often wondered if a person could attach those skirts with self stick velcro on the top and sides and tent pegs on the bottom to hold it straight. Buy the vinyl material at the fabric store. I recovered the shredding seat cushions on my leather loveseat and couch for a total of $50 for the vinyl material plus superglue; works really well.

Hard to say, guess if the spot your camped isn't too windy, here near the ocean we will get lots of big winter storms and tons of rain so wanted to go with something proven to work also needs to look nice to be accepted by the RV park. If camped in drier colder climates lots of people use foam board.