{"id":606,"date":"2010-07-29T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/07\/29\/sound-as-a-pound\/"},"modified":"2010-07-29T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T17:42:00","slug":"sound-as-a-pound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/07\/29\/sound-as-a-pound\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound as a pound"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right, we’ve got charts, a compass, tide tables, two Swiss Army knives, bear spray, and an air horn*, and we’re off on an adventure! (Well, we’re actually off to my mother-in-law’s today, which isn’t all that adventurous, even when our nephews are there, which they are. The adventure starts tomorrow morning). <\/p>\n

If anyone needs me I’ll be on a horse<\/strike> in a kayak, somewhere in Desolation Sound<\/a> (so called because Captain Vancouver saw it on a bad day. Apparently it’s beautiful and not at all desolate – at least not in summer).<\/p>\n

Oh, and our tenant’s still going to be around, so don’t even think about breaking into our house while we’re away! He’s a seriously big dude (6 foot 7 and built like a brick shithouse) who’s bodyguarded for Jean Claude van Damme and Vin Diesel, among others. He’s loaned us his bear spray; he often comes across bears in the course of his (non bodyguarding) work duties, but they<\/i> run away from him.<\/i> Seriously. He has an example of this kind of interaction caught on a tape from a work security camera, but I’m not allowed to post it.<\/p>\n

He’s the big one in this photo – and bear (hah!) in mind that none of the other three guys is exactly petite.<\/p>\n

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Left to right: Mr E Man, my Dad, our massive tenant, baby Lilah’s Dad<\/i><\/div>\n

He’s also a fantastic cat sitter, and the kitties love him.<\/p>\n

BTW, expect (slightly) more science blogging than you’ve been used to when I get back!<\/a> (Don’t worry, you can skip the science posts if you’re not interested. Same goes for any other kind of post, obviously, although I assume that every single reader is riveted by the ongoing dental floss conversation).<\/p>\n

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*Conversation while reserving kayaks:<\/p>\n

Me: “is there much bear activity up there at the moment?”
Woman in kayak shop: “there’s one on the lawn right now! It’s looking at me through the window!”
Me: “…”<\/p>\n

Hence the bear spray and air horn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right, we’ve got charts, a compass, tide tables, two Swiss Army knives, bear spray, and an air horn*, and we’re off on an adventure! (Well, we’re actually off to my mother-in-law’s today, which isn’t all that adventurous, even when our … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57,41,32,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camping","category-kayaking","category-meta","category-nature","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}