We Had a "Whaley" Good Week (groan!!) | Living Off-Grid on the West Coast of British Columbia
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Happy Sunday everyone! This week Peach and I had a ton of whale sightings. Many, right in front of the property. I'm not sure Peach actually saw them. She heard them, but I think that's it :).
I hope you enjoy the video!
Amanda + Peach (& Buttercup, in spirit ❤️)
xo
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Peach and I are currently caretaking an off-grid property on a remote island in British Columbia.
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Dogs not only protect but you never have to go to the restroom alone ☺ You gals have a great week!
oh my gosh. this dog... i can't EVER go to the bathroom alone! if i close the door she scratches at it to be let in. haha!
@@AmandaOffGrid ☺I have two dogs and a cat and they follow me everywhere. My husband says its the potty posse 😆
haha!!!! perfect name!
Amanda you work so hard. Thank you ❤
I love your vlogs! It takes a special person to thrive as you do, I know I would have loved to do it when I was younger. Now that I'm 70 yo I'm no longer able to, however, I can still watch your vlogs and dream.
yes, there are lots of things i wish i would have done when i was younger :). thank you so much for watching 🧡 🧡
Such a lovely place to be. Your videos bring much needed peace for which I am grateful.
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You live in a Beautiful place, Glad theres no bears around , enjoy your week....
So cool the whales come so close! Hoping you took that nap before the wood splitting and so happy to hear Peaches stays close to you. Have a great week ❤❤❤
Very nice video Amanda..❤❤✌️
Thank you!!
Very relaxing ❤️💯🌈🕊🙏🏻
Glad you enjoyed it 🧡 🧡 🧡 🧡 🧡
It was so windy I had to anchor in Growler Cove for a few days! Yay whales🐋 I bet Peach likes the whales.
Your playlist on Spotify is great. I sometimes listen to it in the background while I work.
There’s a playlist? Please let me know . Thanks
Beautiful picturesque view as always!
I live off the Hood Canal in Washington. We have the same weather. I never know how much I can get done outside. Unusual June weather this year. Killer Whales here too. Good dog she’s going to protect you always.
yes! the weather is very unusual. although i noticed that Vancouver is pretty much double temperature-wise what we are here. our killer whales haven't shown up yet. last year they didn't show up 'til August sometime... pretty late.
So great to see the whales up there, thanks for sharing!
That wood has to be heavy!! What a workout.
Hello Amanda & Peach
When you turned off the machine to summon Peach I was thinking exactly that: where is Peach 😆🥰
Have a great week
haha... i am always on the lookout for her. she would sneak off into the forest and be gone. once i found her on the shoreline scrambling on the rock cliff... being young (she's 2) she gets excited and lets her nose take her wherever, without thinking. when she's older and a little more bear/ocean/wolf/cougar savvy i'll worry less :)
I love seeing you each week. I envy your lifestyle. What do you do when you can’t sleep or wake early in the mornings?
i usually just get out of bed, start the fire, make a coffee and read :). if i have a crochet project going i'll put on an audiobook and crochet :). peach always moves from the bed to the couch with me :)
Thanks for sharing, Amanda. BC is beautiful. Maybe you need a few signs around the edge of the island to tell wandering kayakers that unfriendly bears live there. :)
:) people who kayak around here almost always have a guide of some kind. these guides know the islands better than most people. if kayakers stop to get water or ask questions i'll tell them about the bears, but most know. if you're kayaking around here you have to be pretty ocean and nature savvy :)
Another good week for you. Same here! Things are getting busier with the lodges moving out ready for the season, freight boat delivering etc. As for 'tourists'......most are great but there's always those who, in my situation, drive by the house float, 5 feet off the dock, taking pictures and when you say hi, are quite annoyed that you are there?! They don't have any respect for our house or space....😅.
annoyed that you are there?!! what the? does it get really noisy there with boat traffic once summer gets going?
@AmandaOffGrid not really noisy. I hear speed boats going past, and we get a few boats anchoring right in the bay as it's a good, protected corner, and mentioned in all the cruising guides. There are just some tourists who seem to resent the fact there are buildings and a house here. Folks can be really funny at times.
resent that there are buildings there? wow. that's crazy!!
Your stronger, more efficient and very comfortable with all that wood splitting. I don't mind the talk about weather. One thing I think about is that apparently the Inuit have hundreds of words or phrases to describe snow. But when us west coasters talk about rain, we aren't nearly as prolific. It's a little disappointing. LOL
yah... the wood has gotten easier to handle, but i still don't have big muscles - haha! i should get ChatGPT to make my weather reports more interesting :)... maybe that would make it more interesting - haha!
@@AmandaOffGrid We all are bad at describing crappy weather on the wet coast, but great at describing sunny warm weather. Maybe we're just tired of the rain. ha ha
Great video, thanks for sharing!
Hi Amanda, hope your weekend is going well. See you next Sunday. Be safe. I loved seeing the whales. Ty.
I'll try and get more shots of them this week :)! hopefully they'll come nice and close again.
What a glorious way to make a living! Glorious spot, fantastic dog. Have a safe week you two.
it is a great way to live for sure :), but i certainly don't make a living off of it :). about 90% of my income comes from freelance and web design work.
I have solar and wind power generation on my boat. I have charge controller with " dump load option ". This dump load, is hooked up to a d/c coil in my hot water tank. Extra incoming power ( after batteries are full ) goes to this dump load. With an extra insulated hot water heater i end up always having free hot water as a bonus.. just a thought for you.,
nice. i have a hot water heater on my boat. i turn it on during the day in the summer and i have hot water all day long :). not so much in the winter as the solar can't keep up with it.
Really enjoyed seeing the whales, thanks.
Early riser! I used to get up at 4:20 am for work but no way was I capable of speech for at least 2 hrs and two coffees later. Peach is a wonderful dog. Sometimes her instincts kick in and she can’t help herself. Something very exciting in the trees/hole. Have a great week.
haha :) i am definitely a morning person. i LOVE mornings and that's when i have the most energy. as soon as 5/6 PM hits that's when i start to get 'grumpy'. yes, i certainly cannot blame Peach for sure! if the hole wasn't so big and deep i would have let her enjoy herself, but if she slipped into it i don't know how i'd get her out. i put a board over it so kids/dogs can't fall in.
Hi Amanda, greetings to you and Peach from the mountains. We love living in nature also. Your videos are so beautiful!!! I just love British Columbia. My friend moved to Juneau, Alaska.
Thank you so much! I'd love to sail to Alaska. It seems so close to me here, but when I look at a map I realize it's over 2000 km away! I hope to live in nature for the rest of my days :)!! I truly believe it makes us live longer :)
Beautiful, enjoy your week!!
Thank you! You too!
Love your videos
thank you so much 🧡 🧡 🧡!
First time watcher here. I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for sharing. Colorado Girl
Thanks for watching! :)!!!
If some random dude tapped me in the shoulder i would freak out. i chose the bear 😂 You are too brave!
yup! since then i have always carried dog spray in my pocket as well as the bear spray :)
Love your calm and peaceful videos Amanda, God Bless you and Peach
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So fun to watch Peach living her best life. :) Thank you for sharing all you do!
:)... she has it pretty good. some days are tough for her. it can be dangerous to go out in big winds and when there are wolves around she's cabin bound :(. poor girl
@@AmandaOffGrid Naturally - it can't ALWAYS be easy being Peach. :)
Hello Amanda and Peaches Another nice video. Dogs can find the craziest things outside. My dog Aurora is always at my heels inside and outside. I don't suppose you get many people stopping at the lodge, do you?
not so many visitors. most people respect that it's private property. you do get the odd person or group that stop at the dock to see if they can look around or use the dock to go on a hike. unfortunately part of my job is send them on their way. i always give water to kayakers though as fresh water is very tough to come across here. i once had a guy stop with his whole family in this small boat looking for a lighter. apparently they were on a day trip to have a beach bbq and forgot a lighter - haha!
Peach!!!! Lololol❤😊
Have a great day.🎉🦋❤☺👍
Enjoyed catching up with you and Peach this week!
I know you have said you find logs in ocean or they wash up on beach. Any other unique items wash up on beach? What is coolest thing you ever found?
Also, weird, random question but I am teaching myself to crochet. (Watching UA-cam videos😂 even at a not so young age you can learn all sorts of things on UA-cam! 😂 ) Do you make your own hats (or maybe farther North they are called toboggans?) {sorry, lots of rambling to ask question.😂😂}
hi Pam! i am so lame as i have never found anything cool. i know a girl whose parents found a massive garbage bag of marijuana washed up on the shore back in the 70's. they sold it and bought a house for 30k. it's now worth a few million - haha! that's how i taught myself to crochet, watching UA-cam. i watched Melanie Ham's channel (she has passed away now, which is super sad). i make all my own hats (except the Carhartt & Stanfield ones). i think the term you referring to is 'toque' :)... i think most what i make would be called beanies maybe?
Just catching up , was on holidays , Would be awesome to be able to see and hear the Whales out front of the camp such a lovely area , you are such a hard worker Amanda keeping all up to par around the camp, Peach seems to be listening pretty well to you such a good girl even though she had to have a time out lol. Keep em coming Amanda always look forward to what you and Peach are up to. stay safe .
oh how nice. i hope you had a lovely holiday :). it's my goal this summer to get some good whale footage!!! thanks for watching!
Iam glad you have peach she’s a great watchdog and still a pup do you have to go and get your supplies or do the owners bring things when they come love the whales would be special hearing them take care
peach is an amazing watchdog that's for sure! in the summer i'll often get my own supplies, but the owners do bring supplies if i ask.
Bless you for saving a life through rescue ❤😊
she's an amazing dog. a work in progress in some ways, but all-in-all she's exactly what i needed :)!
@@AmandaOffGrid , she’ll get there. Glad you have her companionship in paradise 💕
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Looks like a lot of firewood....
never ending :)
No one will be sneaking up on you with Peach around. I'd be watching the whales all day rather than getting any work done. Yum...dead squirrel! Could have been worse for you if she had rolled on it.🤢
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Great channel, Amanda. I just discovered it from Exploring Alternatives. May I ask you what camera, lens, mic, lighting… you use? I tried searching your channel and didn't immediately come up with this info.
hi :). i use the Sony ZV-1 with the wide angle adaptor on it. i've been using it since 2021. it's falling apart (the lens on the camera has fallen out numerous times - haha), but it still works great :). i really like this small camera as it's portable and it does amazingly well in bright (on-board ND filter) and low light.
@@AmandaOffGrid Thank you, Amanda. I love the post color work you do as well. It gives your content a very cozy and inviting look. I'm a print Art Director for a magazine called Yachting out of the US. You may have heard of a our sister publication - Cruising World.
ah… yes i’ve read Cruising World. thx for the nice compliment 😊!
Hello. Do you ever get a day off. Like just lounge, read and just chill out? xx
Not really... i do take 2 days a week doing nothing on the property other than do my daily property check, but i have so many other creative projects on the computer that i'm working on (and enjoy) that i end up doing those :). also, there has been so much rain lately that i can't do much outside so i end up working on my freelance stuff (which i also love doing). the only thing that feels like work for me around here is the weed trimming... only cause i hate doing it - haha!!! i do wake up every day at around 4AM so from then to about 8AM i will read, crochet, basically chill.
@@AmandaOffGrid hi thank you for your reply. I used to be a freelance web designer so I with you in that it’s enjoyable and doesn’t feel like work. Eek weeding, an on going pain in the but lol 😂
Very good video as always keep up the good work and stay safe
Do u ever fish?
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that about sums up my life - haha!