Black Douglas

Black Douglas © 2002 Michael R. Barrick

Back "home" there is a pub at Cowichan Bay that used to be called the Black Douglas. Most locals (at least those over 35 or so) still call it the Black Doug despite the fact that it was renamed something more touristy some years ago. Cowichan Bay is a fishing village, and what you see here is the straight where these men would fish. "Douglas" is Gaelic for "dark water" and from this photo you can see how fitting the pub's name was. Just another example of marketing weasels playing to the stupid and sucking the poetry out of our culture.