I'm organizing my next adventure, filming and surfing in Sombrio, a secluded surf break on southern Vancouver Island. The swell is picking up for Wednesday and Thursday and it's coming from the right direction. If you look at a map of southern Vancouver Island and Washington State's Olympic Peninsula you'll see that a stretch of Washington reaches north blocking southern Vancouver Island from a direct west swell. For Sombrio to be good the swell has to be coming from the north. With a couple of big storms sliding down the coast, that's exactly what we have.

We're going to rent an RV, a la Drive Thru series (excellent and funny surf movies), so we'll be in perfect position to catch the big swell and the good light. RVs, they're not just for the newly wed and nearly dead!

I'm off to Tofino to surf tomorrow and I can't wait. I love that town and always have the best time there. The swell is suppose to pick up on Tuesday so hopefully we will get some nice clean waves!

This is my new camera man, Sascha Porteous!

I just had an amazing day at castle mountain! We met at 7:15 to learn avalanche safety and then off in a cat to the back country. The snow was wind blown in spots and epic in others. I felt like it was the first day on this Rockie mountain safari where I could really charge. I've been a little hesitant to really push myself because the conditions have been quite icy and on a snowboard that can be challenging. I've started to trust my toe edge and it's helping me feel more confident over all. I guess the mind /body connection is the big reminder. Stay present and smile. josie

My first episode of Restless Josie went up on you-tube this morning and my fingers are shaking as I write this entry. It feels like I just jumped off a cliff and I haven't hit the water yet. I guess when you decide to put yourself out there you have to embrace a no fear policy. I'm not sure I'm there yet but I'm working on it. I don't think I've ever met a successful person who didn't think take chances! Peace, Josie

My first episode of Restless Josie is being uploaded to you-tube as I write this. I've been told to expect a 12 hr delay before it can be viewed. I'm to excited to stay home and wait so I'm going on a 24 hr adventure up to Mt.Cain. A small community run ski hill,on northern Vancouver island. Hopefully, the snow will be prolific and the laughs constant.

You probably missed it in the local news, but there was a report that someone in Pakistan had advertised in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed a Canadian - any Canadian..


An Australian dentist wrote the following editorial to help define what a Canadian is, so they would know one when they found one.


A Canadian can be English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. A Canadian can be Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, Arab, Pakistani or Afghan.
A Canadian may also be a Cree, Métis, Mohawk, Blackfoot, Sioux, or one of the many other tribes known as native Canadians. A Canadian's religious beliefs range from Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or none. In fact, there are more Muslims in Canada than in Afghanistan. The key difference is that in Canada they are free to worship as each of them chooses. Whether they have a religion or no religion, each Canadian ultimately answers only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

A Canadian lives in one of the most prosperous lands in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms which recognize the right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

A Canadian is generous and Canadians have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return. Canadians welcome the best of everything, the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best services and the best minds.
But they also welcome the least - the oppressed, the outcast and the rejected.

These are the people who built Canada . You can try to kill a Canadian if you must as other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world have tried but in doing so you could just be killing a relative or a neighbour. This is because Canadians are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, can be a Canadian.


Please keep this going! Pass this around the World. Then pass it around again.
It says it all, for all of us.


'Keep your stick on the ice'