A community that was part of our lives for so long.

So many changes lately it’s moving so fast that I can’t keep up with it. My family has been part of a community for 45 years. A lot of change has come in those years. This beach I know it so well and it’s part of my home. How many times I’ve walked in it looking for sea glass, rocks of all different shapes and sizes. Sitting on the logs and watching the people go by. Seeing the forts children have made. It’s so peaceful here. I’ve walked out so many times with my favorite person.

A community where I went to high school in. That was a long time ago. A home in a hill that was my first home when I moved from Ireland to Canada. The home where I found a family that I love so much. Many great memories. The next home down the hill right near the ocean. This beach was visited often by all who came to visit.

Change appeared all around us over the years recently new condos on the small street and the closure of a restaurant that’s been there for a very long time. I knew it when it was Mc Morrins restaurant.

Patrons of the oceanfront Beach House restaurant in Saanich are a step closer to being able to dine and dance the night away — again.

The former family-owned McMorran’s restaurant, a Cordova Bay landmark, was in business almost 90 years, offering dancing for most of that time to generations of families in the capital region. I remember the dancing when I was in high school. In 2010 Mc Morrins because known as the beach house and became a restaurant and a coffee shop the place was well known for weddings because it looks right out into Cordova Bay Beach and the water. It’s got magnificent views.

Last year it closed its doors for the last time and is up for sale so that more condos can be built there. The once cottage area is expanding into bigger homes and leaving that small community feeling. I love this area so much I’m planning to keep coming and spending time at Matticks for coffee and visiting the beach I know so well. I feel sad so much change and I miss spending time at the beach with my favorite person. This community will never be forgotten. It’s a huge part of my life.