Old news (one year old), but still amazingly good news! These photos have sat in draft form for a whole year, waiting for me to find words and, as they haven't gone stale, I'm posting them in October 2016.
In September 2015, after many years of worrisome speculation about the fate of Uncle Sandy's major portion of the original Bosun Ranch, we managed to purchase a large chunk of the ranch to add to Cole's inherited piece. In the words of Mike Sweeny: "The purchase of DL1799 remainder and DL2411 has been completed." Phew!
The "new land" includes: the field adjacent to our inherited piece (photos #1 and #2), the dam on Harris Creek that supplies most of the ranch water, and the mountainside above us as far as you can see (photo #3). Granted, much of the mountainside is either either clear-cut (by the speculators in 2013) or formidably steep, but we are thrilled.
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| Photo #1 - the field to "Aunt Heather's Tree" |
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| Photo #2 - the fence marks our old boundary |
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| Photo #3 - to the top of the ridge |
Thanksgiving weekend 2015 - Douglas, Molly, Ellen, Thomson, Doco and I were all at New Denver and, with Chris and Julia, we all walked the upper land, south to north, from the dam and cedar swamp to the east end of the Bosun Lake.
Halfway along - in a grove of big cedars and even bigger stumps, near the skunk cabbage patch, where the creek wanders in and out of the ground.
Near the far northern end of our land - at the top tunnel of the Bosun Mine (the bottom tunnel is at Slocan Lake level)
Finally, down a steep gulch to the Bosun Lake
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| idyllic for some (Thomson) ... |
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| … precarious for others (Doco) |
But we all made it down - for a gummy-bear stop in the 'field' at the eastern end of the Bosun Lake, still on our 'new land'
All in all, lovely! Thankful we are!!!
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