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While showing a visiter to my local salmon fishing hole we were disturbed by a wild experience.

Just across the river was a black bear leisurely eating black berries, while dozens of people just continued to fish for Pinks.

Here’s the video i shot.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrusty691?blend=21&ob=5

The Finished Art

Day five and everything is over till next year.

All the clean up has been done as best can be done, the fencing has been removed and the carved logs are now open to the public to tough and comment in awe!

It is alway’s a difficult task to choose one carving over another. Because they are all rather spectacular. The detail is awe inspiring. But what you see were all carved out of one log.

You can see the finished article here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctKtf5V-uMk&feature=player_detailpage

Many carvers has already signed up to next years event already and judging by the number of new carvers this year – next year is really going to be more spectacular than this.

http://youtu.be/y2cwY2NUkm4

The Saturday Salmon BBQ

Day four of The Transformation On The Shore is certainly bringing out the best in all the wood chips, shavings and sawdust, that have been blowing through the air of late.

Day four, was also another highlight to the carving contest. The salmon barbecue. The salmon is cooked directly on the beach around a fire that is using chunks of wood off the logs being carved, in the Native traditions. That was something to see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctKtf5V-uMk&feature=player_detailpage

Along with the salmon was three salad dishes which included fresh caught prawns from local waters of off Vancouver Island, Bannocks, rolls. Followed by carrot cakes, lemon meringue tarts, both vanilla and chocolate fudge covered cake. Coffee, pop and water.

Every thing starts again Sunday morning. The carvers now have until 2 p.m. to complete their creations. At that time all the ceremonies start, prizes are chosen and winners notified. Auctions are closed and winners presented with their auction trophies.

http://youtu.be/y2cwY2NUkm4

Canada Day Fireworks

What a fitting end to a birthday party that lasted practically all day long!

The queues for doughnuts alone were about 100 deep. In fact Campbell River has a population of about 32 to 35 thousand people and i swear they were all on the shore tonight for the impending fireworks on the water.

All over Canada, July 1st is celebrated like American’s celebrate July 4th and Britain’s celebrate Guy Fawkes day on November 5th.

And, just like most other countries we end the party with fireworks!

This is a long video of about 10 minutes. Watch!

http://youtu.be/UFbeZLBESbk