A Rocha Canada

We arrived in the darkness yesterday evening and we awoke this morning to realise that we were looking over a lovely river valley with a pond with - yes - Canada Geese in ...as well as Hooded Mergansers and a local Red tailed Hawk. Markku Kostamo who is the Director of A Rocha Canada and his wife Leah had kindly offered to have us stay in their place as the A Rocha centre was full and so we are staying about 4 miles down the road in a house which has been gifted to A Rocha Canada together with the associated land and they are just setting the plans for the future for the site which has real potential.

This is likely to mean moving from the existing site which it is hoped will be sold to sympathetic purchasers - during the course of the year. We had lunch there and wandered around the grounds which have been managed very carefully as a mix of wilderness, farming (including this Highland cow..), and vegetable plots. We were hugely impressed by what they have done.

In the evening it was the semi final of the Olympic Ice Hockey so the whole team came round to the Kostamo's for tea and to watch the game - in what in the end was a close match Canada scraped through 3-2 so folks are building up to the US game on Sunday...