Boudary Bay

Boundary Bay in Point Roberts, USA, is a special place for our family. I have precious memories of summer vacations spent playing on the sandbars there when I was a girl. My Mom also spent time out at Boundary Bay when she was a young girl, and so did my Grandma. Even though our family no longer owns a cabin there, it seems only natural for the next generation to be able to experience Boundary Bay, so, for the last 5 summers, my Grandma has rented a cabin there for a week where our extended family can converge for fun at the beach. It is always so much fun, but I think this was one of the best years yet because the weather was perfect - not too hot, but no rain!

One of Evan's favourite things to do at Boundary is skimboarding. He's definitely better at it than he was last summer when he tried it for the first time.

The dog in the pictures is not ours, but it hung around all morning and had fun chasing Evan on his skim board.


Rachel played for ages in this tiny puddle on the sandbar until it finally dried up.

Grace is such a water baby

Playing "Fox and Goose" or "Line Tag" or whatever you want to call it, with Brian and Quinn when they came out to visit one afternoon.
There were 5 in the bed and the little one said . . .

I don't know why this one won't flip over for me

Cute cousins!

Colby is always looking for critters Everybody helped to find crabs, and fish and other things to put in the "marine habitat."

Ashley is too cute!
Days like this are why we keep going back to Boundary Bay.
Grace found a ladybug friend



Grandma always makes flubber to entertain all the grandkids. This year they had bubble blowing contests with the flubber.
Rachel loves her Nana


Walking along the beach on the way to the clay cliffs.
I know it's hard to see some of the pictures but if you click on it, you can see it bigger.
Roy and Ryan having a very serious discussion about sandbar golfing

I think they've invented a new sport
Every year at Boundary Bay, one of the highlights is the walk down the beach to the "clay cliffs," where everyone climbs the hill of sand and clay and carves their name in it.
Evan magically grew to be as tall as Grandma! :)
A nest of baby swallows we saw on our walk.
Building the annual sandbar castle in order to stay out on the sandbars as long as possible.

As you can see, there are lots of fun happenings at Boundary Bay - and these aren't even all the pictures! It's been over a month already since we got home from Boundary so it's almost time for the kids to start asking "How much longer until we go back to Boundary Bay?!"