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{T’S ALL right, my friends, safe to come in
again. I’ve given up haverin’ and greetin’ and
acknowledge the posi-

have finally decided to

tive.

There has to be some fun
in this enforced backwater.

Reading, for example.
One hand will turn pages,
and a book can carry one
way beyond the inconve-
nience of. casts and such ar-
bitrary boundaries.

Thank you, though, for
bearing with me. You’ve
been very generous with of-
fers of comfort and cheer,
you're a great group.

Why, I have been in-
troduced to a book on how
to keep one’s balance, even
when old; to a one-handed
meatloaf (pretty good, too);
how.-to get help. from the
man down the hall; and, fi-
nally, the gift that the inval-
id values above all: a proper
bath!

The ultimate indulgence.

_- To start my new program
I read an old book, a book
I’ve read before. and
perhaps will read yet
another time. It’s called The
Song of the World, and is a
translation. from a. man
called Jean Giono. It’s a
sort of allegory, maybe, or
perhaps just a fairy “tale,
about. simple people who
live on and by the rivers
and the woods.

Simple survival is

motivation for the adven-
tures they encounter against
other forces, of nature or of
man. -
After that I began to read
a new -book by a young
Canadian woman, Sandra
Birdseli, . whose work is
winning. much praise. I am
uncomfortable with it, it is
about today’s children. |

I ‘expect’ to finish it;
perhaps ll learn, some-
‘thing.
» Meantime, though, { took

4 detour,’ and have spent
two lovely days with Cap-
tain Charles W. Cates (the

Cr Mayor Cates, his Daddy
; was’ Charles H.). I didn’t
expect pleasure when | took

up this little book, publish-

ed in 1952 and called Tidal

Action in British Columbia

Waters. .

‘Jt’s not a title to make
you smack your lips, really,
but there’s no denying the
tides of the world are the

_ J88F basic forces of trade, : of
colonization, of our lives.

And. we on this coast
have .some of the most
spectacular tidal action to
be found anywhere in the
world.

The little book came into
my hands from a woman I
‘can. only describe as. the
liveliest-minded| person I
have ever met. She lives in
Ottawa Gardens in a house
that looks ‘fill on the grand
presence of the Lions.

THE VINTAGE YEARS

She says herself she and
her husband bought the
view —- the house just came
with it!

Since moving in, she has
soaked up the history of
North Vancouver City and
made it real by virtue of
association with many of
the. movers and shakers,
amongst them the Cates
family.

Her possession of the lit-
tle beok is most fortuitous,
as it appears to have been
privately printed in 1952 on

heavy stock, with quite a lot
of photos of tides at full
and at ebb, some of the
Skookum Chuck, some of
the Vancouver side of our
harbor, and of the roaring
flood tide at Second Nar-
rows.

Of course it’s a gold mine
of information for the local
sailor, but even the purely
armchair traveller can get a
lot of pleasure from the
man’s intimate knowledge
of every eddy, every creek
mouth.

There is constant change
in the channels at the
mouth of the Fraser as well
as at the Port of New
Westminster, and Captain
Cates explains exactly how
the laws of friction and
momentum apply to flowing
water.

Watch out at Prospect
Point, too; a big ebb tide

‘pours out under Lions Gate

Bridge and flows towards
Hollyburn, meeting the
back eddy along Siwash
Rock.

Don’t try it at night in
the winter time -— it’s ex-
tremely hazardous.

No wonder the little tugs
here had such a career in
our waters — there were
long heads in charge.

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