It has been just over a week since we arrived in Ocean Grove. It is a very small, beautiful, ocean side town with 2 grocery stores, 3 primary schools, 1 highschool, a couple of lovely cafes and a surf shop. Most of the town is vacant right now as it is winter here. The locals we have met have told me that this is coldest winter in 25 years. It’s about 10 degrees out and we are enjoying the fall-like weather. Reid, Alexis and I have spent our days exploring the town while Shane has been at work. We have found ourselves to be the only ones walking outside and playing at the playground. It is simply too cold for the locals to be outside. We have been told that in the summer months (November to Easter), this town is very busy as the home owners come from their permanent residences in other parts of Victoria, to stay in their ‘holiday houses,’ as they call them. It would be similar to having cottage in Ontario (except that there is an ocean here, not a lake). We have enjoyed exploring the beach, collecting shells and watching the locals surf.