March 17, 2008. Western Head. N.S. Waves.

These waves this evening were incredible. Strong north wind gusting up tp fifty miles per hour along with very high waves resulting in the largest rooster tails blowing off the tops of the waves back toward the sea. It was an amazing sight. We are just at the edge of the storm hitting Newfoundland this evening. Our result is very high winds but clear sunny sky, while they are having three feet of snow. This is after the two feet of snow that fell two days ago. The weather in Newfoundland is fierce, in fact they speak of weather as always bad weather. The Newfoundlander will speak of the coming weather when they really mean the bad weather is coming. We were just there for two weeks, but my observation was that they do not just put up with the weather, they relish the weather. We loved Newfoundland. It is beautiful, and the people have been so isolated for so long , they have interesting ways of talking and acting. But I would not like to live there. Too much weather.

I wonder how long you would live here in this home before you stopped seeing the sea. I know over time the familiar scenery becomes comonplace and soon you never see the look of the place. When we moved to Galveston, Texas, an island on the Gulf coast, we either walked or drove along the boardwalk every day. Most evenings after dinner we walked along the beach. It was a wonder to us to be able to walk in the evening when it was still warm, after moving from Toronto where the evenings are always cool. The second year it was every other night on the board walk and the third year it was once a week. The fourth and fifth years were taken up with the children, and by the time we left Galveston after six years we barely paid the beach any mind at all. But so far I am not tiring of the Atlantic Ocean. Every day the sea is different and beautiful. The way the waves looked today can keep your memery bank full for a full year, I am sure.