Many moons ago, in fact many trips around the sun ago, I was brought to Bowen Island on the old water taxi from Granville Island. My recollections are a little hazy, other than throwing up on the boat 🤮. The humans tell me this is the first time I went in the water and had a “real swim”. Here I am at that same spot as I approach my ninth birthday. I couldn’t swim today as the water is apparently overrun with leaches, seems a strange place for the unemployable.

These are photos of me on that day many moons ago. I know, I used to have dark fur but I think have aged a little better than the 🐻