When Your Children Shall Ask

How precious are our children and our grandchildren !!!

And how we treasure the memories we build over the years.

Do you know that it is pleasing to God when we do ?

When the Israelites crossed the Jordon they were commanded to pile up twelve stones for one reason! A memory trigger !
In Joshua 4:21 God's people were told that when in the future their children would pass by these stones and ask "What are these stones?", they were to tell them the stories of how God had brought them through the Jordon.

Piling up rocks wherever we go is rather impractical in our modern times... but we still build memories with our cameras!
Here in this post I am sharing some of my 'memory stones' that I gathered on our trip to the Pacific Rim National Park in Tofino, Vancouver Island. (I'm sorry the following photos are not in sequential order.... but Blogger does not allow me to move them around without you losing the ability to click on them to enlarge them)

Taken shortly after we left Horseshow Bay heading for Nanaimo.

This house was perched on the rocky cliff overlooking the ocean a short beach walk from where we stayed. I stood looking at the house thinking I would like to live there. Today I heard the house is for sale, for a paltry sum of over 8 million dollars.

We so enjoyed exploring the caves and natural rock tunnels on the rocky shore of the beach that lay a few meters from our villa windows.

On the drive to Long Beach we passed beautiful water pools carved out of solid rock. Daring young people were jumping off the rocks into these pools.

Rocky cliffs that could be explored when the tide was out, caves that are filled with water when the tide is in.

Relaxing in our luxurious villa at Pacific Sands Resort. If you ever go to Tofino I highly recommend this family owned resort right on a private beach.

I love the waves coming in and crashing up against the rocks.

How interesting was the chevron pattern the receding waves made in the sand.

A sea gull proudly looking out to sea!

My daughter and son-in-love on an evening stroll, taken from our window.

My granddaughters and I skipping with a sea onion 'rope' ... Well, Ok.. I wasn't skipping, just holding the sea onion end. smile.

Apparently there was some kind of surfing meets or something going on while we were there. There were so many surfers, as the one in the above photo, surfing from early morning until after dark.

We never tired of sounds and movement of the ocean waves. Those are my grandgirls feet.

Lots of colorful starfish , aneomes , barnacles and clams in their shells revealed when the tide was out.

Beautiful in the evening dusk. View from our living room window.

Also from our Villa window but with the sun shining on the waves.

Shadows/reflections in the wet sand .

This is a tree in the Cathedral Grove park. The standing tree is 76 meters tall, 9 meters in circumference and was 300 years old when Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.

After waiting over 4 hours at Departure Bay in Nanaimo, we finally boarded the new Coastal Renaissance ferry on our way home. The sunset was beautiful.