Amy was up and feeling pretty good (minus the cold) but we hit the streets bright and early of downtown and I should of taken more pictures of downtown! Our first stop was a brand new bakery in town... Red’s. They had a good selection and recommended their cheese biscuit or custard tart. I almost went for the custard tart but behold my wandering eyes beheld the most delicious looking meatballs. And they were!!! I got 2 lovely spicy pork meatballs ❤️. Not a usual bakery purchase but they were outta this world good! Amy, however, opted for the recommended cheese biscuit, even though she didn’t have a pleasant experience yesterday with a different biscuit.
We took ourselves across the street to a well established bakery to pick up Nanaimo’s “best” Nanaimo bar and my wandering eyes struck again and we left with an additional pecan bar and a couple Macrons for Amy. And a short stroll later found us at the other end of the harbour that we didn’t get to yesterday! I felt as excited as all the little boys we past that had their faces glued to the big boats! I have to say, the harbour in March is a real treat. The weather has been fabulously warm (especially compared to the weather we’ve had an Alberta)! The harbour walking paths were empty except for the occasional elderly couple walking their dog or families with kids enjoying the warm weather and the ocean breeze. It was so laid back and relaxing.
We found our spot next to the water so we could watch the boats and planes come in and out to enjoy our treats from the bakery. Amy gave it to huge thumbs up to red’s cheese biscuit she said it was sweet and peppery and moist with a good crust! great biscuit!
I had bites from all my treats and they were amazing. The pecan bar was incredibly good and sometimes they can be was over the top sweet and while it was very sweet it was not overly sweet for a pecan bar! And the Nanaimo bar 😳 the custard in it is the real winner- light and creamy all at the same time!
The view from our picnic bench also included the walking dock. On the dock this morning there were a couple of groups crabbing. After eating her treats we took a gander down the dock and couldn’t believe the size of the crabs that they were pulling in! They were enormous!
After our stroll back we took a little drive into the north part of Nanaimo and went to this great little park called Piper Lagoon Park. The houses along this park are dreamy.
In the background amidst the clouds are the mountains ⛰ ❤️
At the end of Pipers Lagoon is this tiny island filled with fishing shacks.
And there were soooooo many tiny swirly shells and birds and the trails were perfectly imperfect. And all the tiny row boats just made my heart so perfectly happy to know a place like this exists in the world. Plus apparently this is the 👌🏻 clam digging place!! You can’t eat them because of a bad algae bloom last year but clams love it in this little lagoon. We went a low tide and there were soooo many clam holes.
After our walk we headed back into the downtown where we went to Pirates. As you can tell it was over the top fun, filled full of interesting things to look at! The batter was good and Delish and the coleslaw was on point. Plus the put vindicates in a spare bottle -ingenious!!
Now we are back at home resting up for part 2 of day 5!
Part 2
After a tiny rest and to catch up on some basketball we were off again. We took a drive down Nanaimo’s river road and found all sorts of treasures. Farms with lambs and lots of little artisan shops. And at the end of the road we found this cool little bridge
We go outta the car and attempted a walk until 2 massive dogs unfriendly met us 😂
We headed back to the Dam/dog park and let the dogs out for a little jaunt. We came back to Amy’s and found a movie to watch (Book Club) and ordered takeout- small luxuries that you don’t get when you live outta town. We ordered Thai food and it was incredible. Like so good. I also finished up my most delicious Nanaimo bar and then headed to bed!
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