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[aastra]

You don't have to be such a Jack*** about it. Sometimes you guys drive me out on the ledge.

[aastra]

Are you sure it wasn't Bobcat Goldthwait?

[Nparker]

He's somewhere on the lynx.

[aastra]

 

Sometimes you guys drive me out on the ledge.

 

No worries, I'm all talk but no action.

[Mike K.]

“Click.”

Ok everyone, aastra’s locked out on the balcony for a while. Party on.

[MysticalWarrior]

A new rendering of this project has been spotted by thegreatscaper..

[Nparker]

A new rendering of this project has been spotted by thegreatscaper..

For future reference in case the link goes dead.

[aastra]

For the first such development in the Uptown area that looks darned decent to my eye. Not a world-beater or anything, but definitely well over on the decent side of the spectrum rather than pinned to the lame side. If this project and the bowling lanes project end up happening for real then this whole Douglas Street corridor thing might actually fly.

[aastra]

I'm just about ready to withdraw every criticism I've ever made about Uptown, or the Upper Douglas/Oak Street visioning. Or LRT. Or ziplines. Heck, I'm even feeling kind of conciliatory toward Mike K.

[Victoria Watcher]

Who knew there was a lake near Uptown.

 

We should put houseboats on it.

[Nparker]

Who knew there was a lake near Uptown...

Swan Lake nature preserve.

[Victoria Watcher]

Swan Lake nature preserve.

 

Even better, houseboat owners love being near nature.

[Mike K.]

Don't we have a house boat expert on here?

[Victoria Watcher]

Tinto Rocks did a show from a house boat on the Shuswap back in 1991.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 April 2023 - 04:53 PM.

[Sparky]

Don't we have a house boat expert on here?

I built and moored a houseboat on the Gorge back in the 80’s. I also had a foreshore lease for “private boat moorage”. I then registered the houseboat with the federal government and got a 14K license.

The Esquimalt municipality we’re dumbfounded after they told me to remove it…when I presented my documentation.

I’m not sure if that qualifies as being an expert, but what would you like to know?

[Victoria Watcher]

I’m not sure if that qualifies as being an expert, but what would you like to know?

 

Let us know how many tiny houseboats for the homeless we can fit on the lake here.  At high tide.

 

 

 

 

I added a grid to make it easy for you.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 April 2023 - 05:16 PM.

[Sparky]

Ha! I’m going to go with none.

The green area at the bottom of your picture was the original Pendray Farm that produced and sold milk. (since relocated out by the airport)

Old man Pendray was known to loose a few cows every year to the quicksand (mud actually) at the edge of the lake. He saved a few by pulling them out with his tractor.

[Matt R.]

^ I think we just need a different expert.

[Nparker]

...Old man Pendray was known to loose a few cows every year to the quicksand (mud actually) at the edge of the lake...

Do cows stuck in quicksand still produce methane? Maybe two global problems can be solved at once here.

[AllseeingEye]

Ha! I’m going to go with none.

The green area at the bottom of your picture was the original Pendray Farm that produced and sold milk. (since relocated out by the airport)

Old man Pendray was known to loose a few cows every year to the quicksand (mud actually) at the edge of the lake. He saved a few by pulling them out with his tractor.

 

My grandparents lived two blocks away from Swan Lk for over 40 years; I heard the Pendray 'cow story' but no one was sure it wasn't an urban legend...I guess it wasn't! To keep us kids in line when we were small we were also told the lake was the result of glaciation and that it was over 900 feet deep. Which naturally we believed. Imagine my disappointment later to find out its maximum depth is actually only about 20 feet. Bummer.