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THE LURE here used to be
a mini-cruise on a stubby
B.C. Ferries vessel, a com-
fortable Bed and Breakfast,
browsing at Munro’s Books
and the frittering away of
time until it ran out.

{t being spring, change is in the
air. The new Spirit of Vancouver
(sland is as long as two football
fields, carries 2,100 passengers and
470 vehicles, has carpets as deep as
the QE2 and a buffet restaurant that
will amaze you.

Go early fora window table and
a dining view better than many
Alaska cruise ships.

The Beaconsfield fin has new
owners, Con and Judi Sollid, who
are putting their own stamp on this
Samuel McClure house on
Humboldt Street.

Inside are 11 romantic rooms
with wood-burning fireplaces,

_ jacuzzi baths or clawfoot soaking

tubs, goose down comforters and an
evening sherry hour in the library.
Outside, meanwhile, there are

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new diversions, such as golf cour-
ses Springing up like crocuses —~ al
least 53 at latest tally. Con Sollid, °
demonstrating the selflessness that
is the mark ofa true innkeeper,
accompanied us to Olympic View

for our first Mail of the year atan
island ball.

German owners constructed this
beautifully treed public course that
plays 6,513 yards from the back
tees. The stoping terrain makes for
some tough holes and real men -
have been known to take power
carts,

Forty minutes north on the
Island Highway is Duncan Lakes,
where a Korean family has just
opened a delightful course with 16
lakes, rolling fairways and superb
greens, ‘ : .

Like Crown Isle at Courtenay,
they spent lavishly on soil and
drainage preparation.

The log cabin-style clubhouse
will open this summer, Duncan
Lakes is 6.698 yards from the blues

“and. it's a cracker.

We played Duncan Lakes with
Nick Pyrch, who tore himself away
from his desk at the Best Western
Cowichan Valley Inn.

Pyrch says Cowichan (it means

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