William Hay, winner of 3 Kenneth R. Wilson Writing Awards and Folio Award, Canadian Author Association member,author of Caesarian Section poetry book, magazine short story and prose columnist.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Point Wilson Coast Guard Light
Just outside Port Townsend is this marvellous old coast guard station. There are terrific RV and campgrounds near by and picnic areas. The attraction though is the wild and wonderful beaches that go for miles. Orcas pass in the channel. We saw them. Eagles soar above. Black tail deer walk about in the nearby woods. it's a mystical place. A place that makes me want to bring and easel rather than a camera. it deserves a whole lot more. But we had places to go and people to meet.
I began writing travel stories in grade 3. My mother was a journalist. I started publishing poetry and photography in high school. Dancing and acting followed with study in England with the world champion after bicycling across Europe. Medical school was also a time of canoeing and cross country skiing. Dad was a great outdoorsman. Country general practice was followed by northern fly in medicine. Completing a medicine fellowship and specializing in psychiatry, I did my California medical examinations before returning north to British Columbia where I began big game hunting, chicken farmed and sailed. Eventually, I solo sailed to Hawaii through winter storms. An island psychiatrist in Saipan, the weekly scuba diving was spectacular.Back in Canada, living on the sailboat,my Harley Davidson motorcycle became a whole new source of adventure.
Raised Baptist, I taught sunday school for the United Church and eventually became Anglican a decade back. Bible study, Yogananda, Tai Chi, AA, celtic and native studies all added to that ecumenical Christian spirituality.
Blessed by a loving family, beautiful partners, friends, pets and resilient house plants, life's a miracle.
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