Dear Editor,
With Bowfest happening right around the corner, my friends and I couldn’t help but share a story from last year when we came to Bowen for the first time to celebrate this great event. It was early in the day when we arrived on the ferry and we figured we would take a walk on one of the beautiful trails that Bowen has to offer before heading to the festival. I should mention, we are definitely city slickers, but figured Bowen was small enough to manage. However, it wasn’t long before we were lost! I blame my friend Tian, who got us turned around hunting for wild blackberries. Here we were, hopelessness starting to set in, when from around the corner came a saviour running in bright green spandex!! OK, maybe it wasn’t so dramatic, but our new friend Wendy (after laughing off our complete lack of a sense of direction) pointed us toward a path that took us back to Bowfest in less than five minutes. After the “near-starvation experience,” our friend Marcie made a beeline for the cotton candy, and she was not disappointed. All in all, we had a fantastic time and are still overwhelmed by the sense of community and general kindness of the island – oh, and of course we’ll be back this year! See you at the slug races!
Evan Boss
